#! /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 keyboardword(wl) local out = {} for i, w in ipairs(wl) do local wx = string.lower(w) if string.match(wx, "^[qwertyuiop]+$") or string.match(wx, "^[asdfghjkl]+$") or string.match(wx, "^[zxcvbnm]+$") then table.insert(out, w) end end return out end if recursive_compare(keyboardword({"Hello", "Alaska", "Dad", "Peace"}), {"Alaska", "Dad"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(keyboardword({"OMG", "Bye"}), {}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")