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-- QuickLuaTour.lua
-- A quick tour of the Lua Scripting Language.
-- Created: May 21, 2008,
-- Updated: Sept 4th, 2008 Fix typos, minor changes, better formatting.
-- Author: AGR Wilson
-- Some more updates and fixes by Dirk Feytons.
-- To add later? - serialize table, self-executing code, closures, co-routines.
local codeSamples ={
-- First Program.
-- Classic hello program.
print("hello")
-- Comments.
-- Single line comments in Lua start with double hyphen.
--[[ Multiple line comments start
with double hyphen and two square brackets.
  and end with two square brackets. ]]
-- And of course this example produces no
-- output, since it's all comments!
-- Variables.
-- Variables hold values which have types, variables don't have types.
print(type(a))
print(type(b))
print(type(c))
print(type(d))
-- Variable names.
-- Variable names consist of letters, digits and underscores.
-- They cannot start with a digit.
one_two_3 = 123 -- is valid varable name
-- 1_two_3 is not a valid variable name.
-- More Variable names.
-- The underscore is typically used to start special values
-- like _VERSION in Lua.
print(_VERSION)
-- So don't use variables that start with _,
-- but a single underscore _ is often used as a
-- dummy variable.
-- Case Sensitive.
-- Lua is case sensitive so all variable names & keywords
-- must be in correct case.
print(ab,Ab,AB)
-- Keywords.
-- Lua reserved words are: and, break, do, else, elseif,
--     end, false, for, function, if, in, local, nil, not, or,
--     repeat, return, then, true, until, while.
-- Keywords cannot be used for variable names,
-- 'and' is a keyword, but AND is not, so it is a legal variable name.
-- Strings.
a="single 'quoted' string and double \"quoted\" string inside"
b='single \'quoted\' string and double "quoted" string inside'
c= [[ multiple line
with 'single'
and "double" quoted strings inside.]]
-- Assignments.
-- Multiple assignments are valid.
--  var1,var2=var3,var4
a,b,c,d,e = 1, 2, "three", "four", 5
print(a,b,c,d,e)
-- More Assignments.
-- Multiple assignments allows one line to swap two variables.
-- Numbers.
-- Multiple assignment showing different number formats.
-- Two dots (..) are used to concatenate strings (or a
-- string and a number).
a,b,c,d,e = 1, 1.123, 1E9, -123, .0008
print("a="..a, "b="..b, "c="..c, "d="..d, "e="..e)
-- More Output.
-- More writing output.
print "Hello from Lua!"
print("Hello from Lua!")
-- More Output.
-- io.write writes to stdout but without new line.
io.write("Hello from Lua!")
io.write("Hello from Lua!")
-- Use an empty print to write a single new line.
-- Simple table creation.
a={} -- {} creates an empty table
b={1,2,3} -- creates a table containing numbers 1,2,3
c={"a","b","c"} -- creates a table containing strings a,b,c
print(a,b,c) -- tables don't print directly, we'll get back to this!!
-- More Tables.
-- Associate index style.
address={} -- empty address
address.Street="Wyman Street"
address.StreetNumber=360
address.AptNumber="2a"
address.City="Watertown"
address.State="Vermont"
address.Country="USA"
print(address.StreetNumber, address["AptNumber"])
-- if statement.
-- Simple if.
if a==1 then
    print ("a is one")
-- if else statement.
if b=="sad" then
    print("b is sad")
    print("b is not sad")
-- if elseif else statement
if c==1 then
    print("c is 1")
elseif c==2 then
    print("c is 2")
    print("c isn't 1 or 2, c is "..tostring(c))
-- Conditional assignment.
-- value = test and x or y
b=(a==1) and "one" or "not one"
-- is equivalent to
if a==1 then
    b = "one"
    b = "not one"
-- while statement.
while a~=5 do -- Lua uses ~= to mean not equal
    io.write(a.." ")
-- repeat until statement.
    print(a)
-- for statement.
-- Numeric iteration form.
-- Count from 1 to 4 by 1.
for a=1,4 do io.write(a) end
-- Count from 1 to 6 by 3.
for a=1,6,3 do io.write(a) end
-- More for statement.
-- Sequential iteration form.
for key,value in pairs({1,2,3,4}) do print(key, value) end
-- Printing tables.
-- Simple way to print tables.
a={1,2,3,4,"five","elephant", "mouse"}
for i,v in pairs(a) do print(i,v) end
-- break statement.
-- break is used to exit a loop.
while true do
    if a==10 then
        break
-- Functions.
-- Define a function without parameters or return value.
function myFirstLuaFunction()
    print("My first lua function was called")
-- Call myFirstLuaFunction.
myFirstLuaFunction()
-- More functions.
-- Define a function with a return value.
function mySecondLuaFunction()
    return "string from my second function"
-- Call function returning a value.
a=mySecondLuaFunction("string")
-- More functions.
-- Define function with multiple parameters and multiple return values.
function myFirstLuaFunctionWithMultipleReturnValues(a,b,c)
    return a,b,c,"My first lua function with multiple return values", 1, true
a,b,c,d,e,f = myFirstLuaFunctionWithMultipleReturnValues(1,2,"three")
print(a,b,c,d,e,f)
-- Variable scoping and functions.
-- All variables are global in scope by default.
-- To make local variables you must put the keyword 'local' in front.
function myfunc()
    local b=" local variable"
    a="global variable"
    print(a,b)
-- Formatted printing.
-- An implementation of printf.
function printf(fmt, ...)
    io.write(string.format(fmt, ...))
printf("Hello %s from %s on %s\n",
       os.getenv"USER" or "there", _VERSION, os.date())
 Standard Libraries
  Lua has standard built-in libraries for common operations in
  math, string, table, input/output & operating system facilities.
 External Libraries
  Numerous other libraries have been created: sockets, XML, profiling,
  logging, unittests, GUI toolkits, web frameworks, and many more.
-- Standard Libraries - math.
-- Math functions:
-- math.abs, math.acos, math.asin, math.atan, math.atan2,
-- math.ceil, math.cos, math.cosh, math.deg, math.exp, math.floor,
-- math.fmod, math.frexp, math.huge, math.ldexp, math.log, math.log10,
-- math.max, math.min, math.modf, math.pi, math.pow, math.rad,
-- math.random, math.randomseed, math.sin, math.sinh, math.sqrt,
-- math.tan, math.tanh
print(math.sqrt(9), math.pi)
-- Standard Libraries - string.
-- String functions:
-- string.byte, string.char, string.dump, string.find, string.format,
-- string.gfind, string.gsub, string.len, string.lower, string.match,
-- string.rep, string.reverse, string.sub, string.upper
print(string.upper("lower"),string.rep("a",5),string.find("abcde", "cd"))
-- Standard Libraries - table.
-- Table functions:
-- table.concat, table.insert, table.maxn, table.remove, table.sort
table.insert(a,3);
table.insert(a,4);
table.sort(a,function(v1,v2) return v1 > v2 end)
for i,v in ipairs(a) do print(i,v) end
-- Standard Libraries - input/output.
-- IO functions:
-- io.close , io.flush, io.input, io.lines, io.open, io.output, io.popen,
-- io.read, io.stderr, io.stdin, io.stdout, io.tmpfile, io.type, io.write,
-- file:close, file:flush, file:lines ,file:read,
-- file:seek, file:setvbuf, file:write
       print(io.open("file doesn't exist", "r"))
-- Standard Libraries - operating system facilities.
-- OS functions:
-- os.clock, os.date, os.difftime, os.execute, os.exit, os.getenv,
-- os.remove, os.rename, os.setlocale, os.time, os.tmpname
print(os.date())
-- External Libraries.
-- Lua has support for external modules using the 'require' function
-- INFO: A dialog will popup but it could get hidden behind the console.
require( "iuplua" )
ml = iup.multiline
    expand="YES",
    value="Quit this multiline edit app to continue Tutorial!",
    border="YES"
dlg = iup.dialog{ml; title="IupMultiline", size="QUARTERxQUARTER",}
print("Exit GUI app to continue!")
iup.MainLoop()
 To learn more about Lua scripting see
 Lua Tutorials: http://lua-users.org/wiki/TutorialDirectory
 "Programming in Lua" Book: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/pil2/
 Lua 5.1 Reference Manual:
     Start/Programs/Lua/Documentation/Lua 5.1 Reference Manual
 Examples: Start/Programs/Lua/Examples
-- for every code sample do
for i =1, #codeSamples do
   -- clear screen
   if os.getenv("OS")=="Windows_NT" then
       os.execute("cls")
   -- print code sample to console
   io.write("\n-- Example "..i.."   ")
   print(codeSamples[i])
   print ("\n-------- Output ------\n")
   -- execute code sample
   -- used protected call to load & execute codeSamples[i] as chunk of code
   local ok, err = pcall(loadstring(codeSamples[i]))
   if not ok then
        print("failed to load & run sample code")
        print(err)
    io.write("\nPress 'Enter' key for next example")
    io.read()
end -- for loop
print("\nYour Quick Lua Tour is complete!")
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