I have seen the hash character '#' being added to the front of variables a lot in Lua. What does it do? EXAMPLE -- sort AIs in currentlevel table.sort (level.ais, function (a,b) return a.y < b...

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.

How to check if a table contains an element in Lua? Asked 15 years, 11 months ago Modified 4 years, 10 months ago Viewed 326k times

As for the pure Lua solutions, let me share this small benchmark, I've made. It covers every provided answer to this date and adds a few optimizations. Still, the basic thing to consider is: How many …

I'm new to Lua, and need to know how to install it on Windows? I've tried and am unable to run the sample. When I try to compile it 100% success is shown, but when I click the run button it shows t...

¹ Lua is a very minimalistic language. It tries to have as few features as it can get away with, and a continue statement isn't an essential feature in that sense.

I've been studying Lua for around a week now, and I'm really curious of how I would do this. Basically (for now, and learning purposes), I just want to make a GUI with 2 buttons, 1 to start the specified …

@rboy true but the point is, in Lua assigning nil to a table key means deleting it. There's no way to distinguish between keys with nil values and keys with no value, regardless of method.

May 12, 2011 · How can I implement bitwise operators in Lua language? Specifically, I need a XOR operator/method.

Jan 24, 2012 · 20 How can I set a lower and upper bound value for a variable in a if-statement in lua programming language? I need something like the pseudocode below.