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Hi nwb. It may be surprising, but the ... syntax is actually valid Lua code for handling variable arguments!

For example, here is the code from https://www.lua.org/pil/5.2.html :

printResult = ""

function print (...)
  for i,v in ipairs(arg) do
    printResult = printResult .. tostring(v) .. "\t"
  end
  printResult = printResult .. "\n"
end

In my example, the code you can copy and paste into the lua console would be:

local function search_google(...)
    local fields =  {...}
    for i, field in ipairs( fields ) do
        if (field.name == 'http.host') then
            browser_open_url("https://www.google.com/search?q=" .. field.value)
            break
        end
    end
end

register_packet_menu("HTTP/Search host in Google", search_google, "http.host")

Hi nwb. It may be surprising, but the ... syntax is actually valid Lua code for handling variable arguments!

For example, here is the code from https://www.lua.org/pil/5.2.html :- 5.2 – Variable Number of Arguments:

printResult = ""

function print (...)
  for i,v in ipairs(arg) do
    printResult = printResult .. tostring(v) .. "\t"
  end
  printResult = printResult .. "\n"
end

In my example, the code you can copy and paste into the lua console would be:

local function search_google(...)
    local fields =  {...}
    for i, field in ipairs( fields ) do
        if (field.name == 'http.host') then
            browser_open_url("https://www.google.com/search?q=" .. field.value)
            break
        end
    end
end

register_packet_menu("HTTP/Search host in Google", search_google, "http.host")

Hi nwb. It may be surprising, but the ... syntax is actually valid Lua code for handling variable arguments!

For example, here is the code from https://www.lua.org/pil/5.2.html - 5.2 – Variable Number of Arguments:

printResult = ""

function print (...)
  for i,v in ipairs(arg) do
    printResult = printResult .. tostring(v) .. "\t"
  end
  printResult = printResult .. "\n"
end

In my example, the code you can copy and paste into the lua console would be:

local function search_google(...)
    local fields =  {...}
    for i, field in ipairs( fields ) do
        if (field.name == 'http.host') then
            browser_open_url("https://www.google.com/search?q=" .. field.value)
            break
        end
    end
end

register_packet_menu("HTTP/Search host in Google", search_google, "http.host")

local function usb_src_action(...)
    local fields =  {...}
    for i, field in ipairs( fields ) do
        if (field.name == 'usb.src') then
            -- Do something special
            break
        end
    end
end

register_packet_menu("USB SRC action", usb_src_action, "usb.src")