#! /usr/bin/lua -- by Michael Anderson at -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8722620/comparing-two-index-tables-by-index-value-in-lua function recursive_compare(t1,t2) -- Use usual comparison first. if t1==t2 then return true end -- We only support non-default behavior for tables if (type(t1)~="table") then return false end -- They better have the same metatables local mt1 = getmetatable(t1) local mt2 = getmetatable(t2) if( not recursive_compare(mt1,mt2) ) then return false end -- Check each key-value pair -- We have to do this both ways in case we miss some. -- TODO: Could probably be smarter and not check those we've -- already checked though! for k1,v1 in pairs(t1) do local v2 = t2[k1] if( not recursive_compare(v1,v2) ) then return false end end for k2,v2 in pairs(t2) do local v1 = t1[k2] if( not recursive_compare(v1,v2) ) then return false end end return true end function fivenumber(n0) local n = {} for i,v in ipairs(n0) do table.insert(n,v) end table.sort(n) local nl = #n - 1 local o = {n[1]} for quartile = 1,3 do local bx = quartile * nl local base = math.floor(bx / 4) local v = n[base+1] if bx % 4 ~= 0 then v = (n[base+1] + n[base+2]) / 2 end table.insert(o,v) end table.insert(o,n[#n]) return o end if recursive_compare( fivenumber({0., 0., 1., 2., 63., 61., 27., 13.}), {0., 0.5, 7.5, 44., 63.} ) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")