The Lua authors felt that continue was only one of a number of possible new control flow mechanisms (the fact that it cannot work with the scope rules of repeat/until was a secondary factor.)

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 string.gmatch …

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

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...

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 conditions is …

Jul 3, 2013 · Edit: Note that Lua doesn't guarantee any iteration order for the associative part of the table. If you want to access the items in a specific order, retrieve the keys from arr and sort it.

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

Aug 19, 2013 · 15 If your Lua uses double precision IEC-559 (aka IEEE-754) floats, as most do, and your numbers are relatively small (the method is guaranteed to work for inputs between -2 51 and 2 …

Apr 15, 2017 · 29 I need to convert a Json String to a table data structure in Lua. I am using the following code.

Lua table (ref) index changes its values without assigning any to them. Why does ref table change its values after assigning it to tab[c] or using string.match()?