Luadata by Example: Comments

Lua supports two kinds of comments. Both are stripped during parsing and do not appear in the JSON output.

lua

-- This is a line comment
playerName = "Sylvanas"

--[[ This is a
     block comment ]]
playerLevel = 60

output

{
  "playerName": "Sylvanas",
  "playerLevel": 60
}

Line comments start with -- and continue to the end of the line.

Block comments start with --[[ and end with ]]. They can span multiple lines. Some tools generate block comments with extra padding characters like --[=[ ... ]=] — luadata handles these as well.

Want more flexibility? Open the interactive converter to try any Lua input with all available options.

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