get wireless signal

I'm trying to use this widget for awesome to display wireless signal strength, problem is its a year old and where it gets the data (/sys/class/net/*/wireless/link) is deprecated. This is what I got:

local f = io.open("/sys/class/net/eth1/wireless/link")
local signalStrength = f:read()

I tried looking for alternatives, like /proc/net/wireless, but I don't know how to only get the results of Quality - Link.

jsut filter it out, geez.

CSI:MIAMI QUALITY POST

Doesn't Lua have string manipulation functions?

>>3
NCIS::losAngeles->Quality('POST');

Thanks for the help, I figured it out, I knew there was a reason I came to /prog/.

>>4
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't because the Lua standard library is very lacking.

>>4,7
Lua doesn't have pretty much anything, because its intent is to be embedded in another program and use that program's API.

It's the exact opposite of Python's "batteries included" thinking, and maybe one of the biggest reasons why no one cares about Lua.

>>6
NOW LOOK AT YOU /prog/!!! LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!!! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW!!! YOU ARE GROUNDED FOR 2 WEEKS AND NOW YOU WILL GO TO YOUR ROOM /prog/ WITHOUT DINNER!!!

>>9
A more effective punishment would be "No SICP bedtime story"

<-- check em dubz

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