#! /usr/bin/lua -- by Michael Anderson at -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8722620/comparing-two-index-tables-by-index-value-in-lua -- modified by Roger function recursive_compare(t1,t2) -- Use usual comparison first. if t1==t2 then return true end -- We only support non-default behavior for tables if (type(t1)~="table") then return false end -- They better have the same metatables local mt1 = getmetatable(t1) local mt2 = getmetatable(t2) if( not recursive_compare(mt1,mt2) ) then return false end -- Build list of all keys local kk = {} for k1, _ in pairs(t1) do kk[k1] = true end for k2, _ in pairs(t2) do kk[k2] = true end -- Check each key that exists in at least one table for _, k in ipairs(kk) do if (not recursive_compare(t1[k], t2[k])) then return false end end return true end function keys(t) local a = {} for k, v in pairs(t) do table.insert(a, k) end return a end function word2set(word) local s = {} for c in string.gmatch(string.lower(word), "%a") do s[c] = true end return s end function commoncharacters(lst) local c = word2set(lst[1]) for i = 2, #lst do local d = word2set(lst[i]) for k, _ in pairs(c) do if d[k] == nil then c[k] = nil end end end local o = keys(c) table.sort(o) return o end if recursive_compare(commoncharacters({"Perl", "Rust", "Raku"}), {"r"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(commoncharacters({"love", "live", "leave"}), {"e", "l", "v"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")