#! /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) if t1==t2 then return true end if (type(t1)~="table") then return false end local mt1 = getmetatable(t1) local mt2 = getmetatable(t2) if( not recursive_compare(mt1,mt2) ) then return false end 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 movezero(l) local o = {} local z = 0 for i, v in ipairs(l) do if v == 0 then z = z + 1 else table.insert(o, v) end end for i = 1, z do table.insert(o, 0) end return o end if recursive_compare(movezero({1, 0, 3, 0, 0, 5}), {1, 3, 5, 0, 0, 0}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end if recursive_compare(movezero({1, 6, 4}), {1, 6, 4}) then io.write(" ") io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(movezero({0, 1, 0, 2, 0}), {1, 2, 0, 0, 0}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")