[luatex] Newbie question: how to stop TeX trying to interpret Lua?

[luigi scarso]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Dirk Laurie <dpl at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> I've managed quite well for several months by writing and debugging
> my Lua code separately and using only "dofile" inside \directlua.
> Now I'm trying to do it all inside LuaTeX.
>
> It comes as a shock that
>
> \directlua{ tex.print("\\TeX") }
>
> does not work.  TeX grabs the double-quote and tries to make some
> accented character.  I've read to about page 25 of the LuaTeX manual
> and it's already way over my head.  The answer, apart from working
> with dofile, may be in there but I'm not going to find it soon.
>
> Help please!
>
> Dirk
>
what about
\directlua{ tex.print([=[\TeX]=]) }
?
-- 
luigi