Lua Frequently Asked Questions ( FAQ )
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Lua Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Language
- Suitability as a First Programming Language?
- Suitability as a Second Programming Language?
- Any good editors and debuggers?
- What is the difference between pairs and ipairs?
- Why have a special operator for string concatenation?
- Why doesn't 'for k,v in t do' work anymore?
- How can one put a nil value in an array?
- Why does print 'hello' work, and not print 42?
- What is the difference between a.f(x) and a:f(x)?
- How are variables scoped?
- Difference between require and dofile?
- How to explicitly load a binary module?
- Can functions and operators be overloaded?
- How to make functions receive a variable number of arguments?
- How to return several values from a function?
- Can you pass named parameters to a function?
- Why no continue statement?
- Is there any exception handling?
- No Classes? How do you guys survive?
- Is there String Interpolation, like "$VAR is expanded"?
- Packaging as a standalone Application?
- How do I load and run Lua code?
- Embedding Lua in an Application?
- Documenting Lua Code?
- Data
- How do I access command-line arguments?
- How to Parse Command-Line Arguments?
- How to read all the lines in a file?
- How to read numbers?
- How to format text and numbers nicely?
- How to read CSV data?
- How to work with binary data?
- Are there Regular Expression libraries?
- Parsing complex structured text data?
- Mathematical libraries like complex numbers, higher-precision arithmetic, matrices, etc?
- How to parse XML documents?
- How to interface with databases?
- Persisting Program State?
- Operating System
- Libraries
- Interoperability
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