Yesterday's version [1] checked the input to see if it was a file or a string and acted accordingly. That's fine, but perhaps a better way is to include a callback function and some opaque piece of datum for that callback to work on. That way, we can operate on more than just strings or files. It's open ended on what we can support.
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```
#!/usr/bin/env lua
-- ***************************************************************
--
-- Copyright 2010 by Sean Conner. All Rights Reserved.
--
-- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-- (at your option) any later version.
--
-- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-- GNU General Public License for more details.
--
-- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-- along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
--
-- Comments, questions and criticisms can be sent to: sean@conman.org
--
-- ********************************************************************
-- Style: Lua 5.1, recursion, callback
function do_dump(fpout,offset,callback,data)
local line = callback(data,offset)
if line == nil then return end
fpout:write(
string.format("%08X: ",offset),
line:gsub(".",function(c) return string.format("%02X ",c:byte()) end),
string.rep(" ",3 * (16 - line:len())),
line:gsub("%c","."),
"\n"
)
return do_dump(fpout,offset + 16,callback,data)
end
-- **********************************************************************
local function cb(data,offset)
return data:read(16)
end
if #arg == 0 then
print("-----stdin-----")
do_dump(io.stdout,0,cb,io.stdin)
else
for i = 1 , #arg do
local f = io.open(arg[1],"r")
io.stdout:write("-----",arg[1],"-----","\n")
do_dump(io.stdout,0,cb,f)
f:close()
end
end
os.exit(0)
```