From 987897357a7e0243887f4aceaccac6d4f13e6a0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sainan <sainan@calamity.gg>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 07:09:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dumpvar: Prefix strings with "string(len) "

---
 src/lbaselib.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lbaselib.cpp b/src/lbaselib.cpp
index 41952d5bb9..0f0e7bfab8 100644
--- a/src/lbaselib.cpp
+++ b/src/lbaselib.cpp
@@ -589,6 +589,12 @@ static void luaB_dumpvar_impl (lua_State *L, int indents, Table *recursion_marke
       const char *s = lua_tolstring(L, -1, &l);
       luaL_Buffer b;
       luaL_buffinit(L, &b);
+      if (!is_export) {
+        luaL_addstring(&b, "string(");
+        lua_pushinteger(L, l);
+        luaL_addvalue(&b);
+        luaL_addstring(&b, ") ");
+      }
       addquoted(&b, s, l);
       luaL_pushresult(&b);
       return;