Re: Inconsistent handling of invalid escape sequences

You need to escape twice.
In the command line it interpreted as you type, but in load you wrapped string into a string. You need to escape the escape in order to preserve it in parsing.

"\\c" -> \c
'"\\c"' -> "\c"
'"\\\\c"' -> "\\c" -> \c
On 8 Aug 2026 at 15:10 +0300, 'Martin Eden' via lua-l <[email protected]>, wrote:
> Invalid characters after backslash are accepted in Lua command-line
> interpreter but rejected when compiling code:
>
>   Lua 5.5.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2026 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>   > print('\\c')
>   \c
>   > load('print("\\c")')
>   nil [string "print("\c")"]:1: invalid escape sequence near '"\c'
>
> Is there official policy for them?
>
> -- Martin
>
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