#! /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 trimlist(n, i) local o = {} for ix, v in ipairs(n) do if v > i then table.insert(o, v) end end return o end if recursive_compare(trimlist({1, 4, 2, 3, 5}, 3), {4, 5}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(trimlist({9, 0, 6, 2, 3, 8, 5}, 4), {9, 6, 8, 5}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")