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Asked: 2026-05-30T00:44:53+00:00

In Adobe Lightroom a Plug-in is written in Lua. In an attempt to teach

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In Adobe Lightroom a Plug-in is written in Lua. In an attempt to teach myself Lua I am working myself through the SDK producing own Plug-ins.
Now I came accross a situation where I am getting a string from a table named ‘images’ like this:

images[1] = "d:\Windows\Temp\LREXPORT\NK119542.tif"

But of course Lua does not like those unescaped backslashes at all. The content of this table varies depending on the user action. I am thinking of a solution to grab that string and manipulate it for further processing.

Correct strings would be:

newimages = "d:/Windows/Temp/LREXPORT/NK119542.tif"
newimages = "d:\\Windows\\Temp\\LREXPORT\\NK119542.tif"

Went through lots of posts and online tutorials but sorry, I was not able to figure this one out.
Hope there is a solution, thanks for replies.

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  1. Editorial Team

    if your fine with forward slashes, why not just replace them:

    images[i]=images[i]:gsub("\\","/")

    Same goes if you think doubling them will help you:

    images[i]=images[i]:gsub("\\","\\\\")
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