#! /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 v2hm(a) local h = {} for i, x in ipairs(a) do if h[x] == nil then h[x] = i end end return h end function minindexsum(a, b) local ah = v2hm(a) local bh = v2hm(b) local out = {} local mi = #a + #b for w, av in pairs(ah) do if bh[w] ~= nil then mv = av + bh[w] if mv < mi then out = {} mi = mv end if mv == mi then table.insert(out, w) end end end table.sort(out) return out end if recursive_compare(minindexsum({"Perl", "Raku", "Love"}, {"Raku", "Perl", "Hate"}), {"Perl", "Raku"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(minindexsum({"A", "B", "C"}, {"D", "E", "F"}), {}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(minindexsum({"A", "B", "C"}, {"C", "A", "B"}), {"A"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")