Lua - Other Standard Library features.

Lua module U112

Other Standard Library features.

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module U112. 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 ...

http://www.wellho.net/course/ubfull.html [course]

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 ...

http://www.wellho.net/course/ulfull.html [course]

Lua - IAQ (Infrequently Answered Questions)

Here are a handful of "one line" answers from the end of the Lua Course I was running at the end of last week • Command line parameters in Lua are ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1847_Lua ... ions-.html [short article]

Global variables via _G

--[[ In Lua, Global variables are accessible via the _G table ... ]] function tellme() for n,v in pairs(_G) do print (n,v) ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u112/globals [code sample]

Directory listing

--[[ There is no directory listing function in Lua as it's a compact language ... but there may be some alternatives in your environment library. Here's ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u112/dlisting [code sample]

What is my host operating system (in Lua)

--[[ What operating system? Lua has only a small library of built in functions - often you have to pull in a library from another source, or write your ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u112/getos [code sample]

What is in os module?

--[[ Want to know what's available in the os module in Lua? Well - everything's a table, so you can find the names at least by using pairs (or next) ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u112/ons [code sample]

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

Examples from our training material

dlisting	Directory listing
getos	What is my host operating system (in Lua)
globals	Global variables via _G
mathfuncs	Maths functions and random number generators
ons	What is in os module?
timtimer	Time / date and timers

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

Maths functions - trig, log, random, geometric, etc.
Time and date functions.
CPU time.
Environment, Metatable and Chunk-Loading Functions.
Vararg-Related Functions

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