#! /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 funsort(l0) local l = l0 table.sort(l) local a = {} local b = {} for i, k in ipairs(l) do if k % 2 == 0 then table.insert(a, k) else table.insert(b, k) end end for i, k in ipairs(b) do table.insert(a, k) end return a end if recursive_compare(funsort({1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}), {2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(funsort({1, 2}), {2, 1}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(funsort({1}), {1}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")