May 3, 2013 · There is a nice article on lua-users wiki about ternary operator, together with problem explanation and several solutions.

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...

Because control structures in Lua only consider nil and false to be false, and anything else to be true, this will always enter the if statement, which is not what you want either. There is no way …

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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 …

How to check if a table contains an element in Lua? Asked 15 years, 8 months ago Modified 4 years, 7 months ago Viewed 323k times

45 If you are splitting a string in Lua, you should try the string.gmatch () or string.sub () methods. Use the string.sub () method if you know the index you wish to split the string at, or use the …

Apr 15, 2017 · Is there a common way to get the current time in or with milliseconds? There is os.time(), but it only provides full seconds.

In general, if you want a switch statement in Lua, what you ought to be doing is building a table. For your simple case of choice that could be 1, 2, or fail, a simple if statement with a few …

In a for loop, what is the difference between looping with pairs() versus ipairs()? The Programming in Lua book mentions both, however, both appear to generate similar outputs as shown below: …