#! /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 reshapematrix(m, r, c) local mv = {} for i1, rv in ipairs(m) do for i2, cv in ipairs(rv) do table.insert(mv, cv) end end if r * c ~= #mv then return {{0}} end local out = {} for i = 0, r - 1 do local rv = {} for x = i * c + 1, (i + 1) * c do table.insert(rv, mv[x]) end table.insert(out, rv) end return out end if recursive_compare(reshapematrix({{1, 2}, {3, 4}}, 1, 4), {{1, 2, 3, 4}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(reshapematrix({{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}}, 3, 2), {{1, 2}, {3, 4}, {5, 6}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(reshapematrix({{1, 2}}, 3, 2), {{0}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")