#! /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 arithmeticslices(l) local o = {} if #l >= 3 then for a = 1, #l - 2 do local valid = false for b = a + 2, #l do local v = {table.unpack(l, a, b)} if not valid then for i = 1, #v - 2 do if v[i + 1] - v[i] == v[i + 2] - v[i + 1] then valid = true break end end end if valid then table.insert(o, v) end end end end return o end if recursive_compare(arithmeticslices({1, 2, 3, 4}), {{1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 3, 4}, {2, 3, 4}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(arithmeticslices({2}), {}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")