Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Does lua provide something like range strings?

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:14 AM Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:59:35AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > I am wondering if the Lua interp in Wireshark provides the equivalent
> > of range strings?
> >
> > Does anyone know?
> >
> > I guess I could make the indexes strings, since they are associative
> > arrays anyway but looking up a value in a range would be difficult.
>
> There does not seem to be support for range strings, but it could be
> added. See value_string_from_table in epan/wslua/wslua_proto_field.c for
> an example.
>
> I suppose that the natural syntax would be:
>
>     local your_range_string = {
>         { 0, 24, "First quarter" },
>         { 25, 54, "Second quarter" },
>     };

So each element is a table itself.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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