From 1ebd14829155a1685d1a6ebd4c46a62054d5ef39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 16:54:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow [int] in table documentation -
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36419386/lua-ldoc-documentation-of-a-table

---
 ldoc/tools.lua | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ldoc/tools.lua b/ldoc/tools.lua
index 8b6d96a..54528d2 100644
--- a/ldoc/tools.lua
+++ b/ldoc/tools.lua
@@ -336,7 +336,12 @@ function M.get_parameters (tok,endtoken,delim,lang)
          return text:match("%s*%-%-+%s*(.*)")
       end
       extract_arg = function(tl,idx)
-         return value_of(tl[idx or 1])
+         idx = idx or 1
+         local res = value_of(tl[idx])
+         if res == '[' then -- we do allow array indices in tables now
+            res = '['..value_of(tl[idx + 1])..']'
+         end
+         return res
       end
    end