Error luaL_doString “ unexpected symbol near '/' ”

Question

I got some error when my code is about:

    const char* file = "/app_home/data/minigames/mg_hint_machine_2.lua";
        PRINTF("File : %s\n", file);
        luaL_dostring(LS, file);
PRINTF("RET(File) : %s\n", lua_tostring(LS,-1));

and output is :

File : /app_home/data/minigames/mg_hint_machine_2.lua

RET(File) : [string "/app_home/data/minigames/mg_hint_machine_2.lua"]:1: unexpected symbol near '/'

I'm pretty sure about my path. Additionally I don't know what symbol that unexpected or

I miss something.

Answer 1

You want luaL_dofile instead of luaL_dostring .

luaL_dostring - tries to execute the string as lua code.

luaL_dofile - tries to execute the file that the string points to as lua code.