There are several occurrences when we want to get the max value from a given series of numbers and then use that value later on.The Maximum value from the series of different numbers is the value that is the maximum of all the numbers that are present in that series.Lua ... Read More

There are several occurrences when we want to get the floor value of an integer to round it off and then use that value later on. The floor value of a number is the value that is rounded to the closest integer less than or equal to that integer. Lua ... Read More

There are several occurrences when we want to get the ceil value of an integer to round it off and then use that value later on.The Ceiling value of a number is the value that is rounded to the closest integer greater than or equal to that integer.Lua provides us ... Read More

It is known that the design of the pattern matching that Lua follows is very much different, then the regular expression design which is generally based on POSIX.They have very less in common, and the more popular approach would be POSIX out of the two because it works great when ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to declare and write different lexical conventions in Lua programming.In Lua, we call NAMES as IDENTIFIERS and they can be any string of letters, digits, and underscored, and they should not begin with a digit.Let’s consider an example of different Identifiers in Lua ... Read More

There’s no continue statement in Lua, and it’s not because the developers of the Lua programming language felt that it is of no use, in fact, in the official documentation they mentioned “continue was only one of a number of possible new control flow mechanisms”. This clearly shows that the ... Read More

Yes, the arrays in Lua start with index 1 as the first index and not index 0 as you might have seen in most of the programming languages.ExampleConsider the example shown below − Live Demoarr = {10, 11, 12, 13, 14} print(arr[0]) print(arr[1])In the above example, we are printing the values ... Read More

In Lua, we make use of both the pairs() and ipairs() function when we want to iterate over a given table with the for loop. Both these functions return key-value pairs where the key is the index of the element and the value is the element stored at that index ... Read More

The ~= symbol or operator in Lua is known as the not-equal to operator. In many programming languages you might have seen the symbol != which is also known as the not equals operator.Let’s consider a few examples where we can make use of the not equals operator.ExampleConsider the examples ... Read More

The unary operator # is known as the Length operator in Lua. It is used almost everywhere in Lua. By everywhere, I meant that anywhere we would require to calculate the length of the any string or can also be used in tables also, but when it comes to table, ... Read More