Lua - Conditionals and loops

Lua module U103

Conditionals and loops

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module U103. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Lua, Lua Programming

Lua Programming - training course - Learning to program in Lua and make good use of the language

Lua Programming - Learning to program in Lua and make good use of the language Our public "Lua Programming" course takes you from the basics of the language ...

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Learning to program in Lua - training course - Learning to program in Lua and make good use of the language

Learning to program in Lua - Learning to program in Lua and make good use of the language "Learning to program in Lua" takes you from the basics of computer ...

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Lua examples - coroutines, error handling, objects, etc

I have presented a bespoke Lua course over the last three days ... and it has lead me to some interesting new examples which I'm sharing here. Object ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2455_Lua ... s-etc.html [short article]

Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...

"Isn't there one standard way to say NOT?" asked one of my delegates on today's course - and it's an excellent question. But the answer to a question ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1696_Say ... -Lua-.html [short article]

Example of a for loop

--[[ I have a lot of children ... and I want to split some Christmas money between them ]] give = 100 maxkids = 8 for numkids = 1,maxkids do ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u103/kz [code sample]

Short circuit evaluation (lazy operator) in Lua

In Lua, if a partial expression evaluates to true the following section will NOT be evaluated if it follows an or because the whole thing cannot be true. ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1685_Sho ... n-Lua.html [short article]

if, elseif, else

--[[ In Lua, if, elseif and else use then and end clauses to delimit the conditional code ]] j = 45 -- == for equality testing if j==45 then print ("yes") ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u103/lif [code sample]

This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Lua, Lua Programming

Examples from our training material

andor	Lazy and / or operators
bpm	string.find v string.gfind
clike	for loop with pairs and ipairs
clumpit	for loop termination
exa	Loops and conditionals - exchange rate example
floo	for loop in which end condition changes
kz	Example of a for loop
lif	if, elseif, else
ll2	while loop and repeat until loop
lloops	while and for loops
tchart	for loop with start, end and step
wcd	Comparison of while and until loops
whilly	Writing cleaner code without break or continue

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

If while repeat break do and for.
Comparing numbers comparing strings.
Equality and nil.
Combining Conditions.

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