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I know format "*a" is used to read a whole file, "*l" used to read a line. But what does "*all" (which appears in the book Programming in Lua) mean? I also saw "*...
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so I was playing around with tables a bit and found this strange behavior: folder1 = {1, 2, 3} table.insert(folder1, "test") --4 folder1[5] = "test2" print("#folder1: " .....
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Fruits = { apple = { ordered = true, amount = 10 }} i have several different kinds of fruits in this table and i need to output everything where ordered=true to make it look like this: apple ordered: ...
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I am moving to Debian 10 from Ubuntu 20.04. Now Lua 5.3 is not finding my own modules using "require". Worked fine on Ubuntu before, I suspect I am missing something now... Pointers are most ...
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I'm trying code from lua.org and from my 4th edition Programming in Lua hardcopy, and as far as I've read all these table examples should work but 3 out of 4 don't, and I cant find anything the docs ...
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I'm extending an application with an embedded Lua VM. My scripts sometimes cause it to crash, and I'd like to be able to make some sense out of the resulting crash dump (Windows). Is there already a ...
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say I've two files test.lua and m.lua in a folder, in test.lua as: require("m") then I run this file, howerver it raise an error: lua: /Users/xx/works/scripts/test.lua:43: module 'm' not found: ...
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I first download lua-5.3.5 , and put the source in my working directory and compile it with make linux so I got the liblua.a and lua binary file in ./lua-5.3.5/src. And then I write a C Dynamic ...
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I am using lua to make scripts in my game, after updating the lua libs version from 5.1 to 5.3, an error appears on the game engine every time I use math.X in a function error : Lua run doFile ...
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In Lua 5.3, when a number is a float without any decimal part, printing it adds ".0" to the end of it, giving me the wrong answer in golf and speed competitions. Rounding or ~~x or x|0 forces it to be ...
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In my project I'm executing some lua functions contained in an XML file. I read the XML from C++, parse the code strings, execute them and get the result. All of the related questions I have found ...
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I have a configurable value of a table fetch function which i get as an input string. I need that string to be executed as a code and fetch a value from the nested table. I tried using load(string), ...
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When testing code with both a predefined script and the LUA runtime environment, LUA will not take any form of string key values. However, if a numerical value key is used LUA will work with it as ...
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This is for a multiplayer game where NPC scripts will be loaded and cached as function chunks on a single lua_State, and then each time a player interacts with an NPC, a new lua_thread is created, a ...
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I rarely use Lua so this might be a trivial question but I just noticed that with Lua 5.3.2, in the interactive REPL I can write for example: > 1 == 2 or error('numbers not equal') Which is how I'...

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