#! /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 leftrightsumdiff(a) local al = #a local left = {0} local right = {0} for i = 1, al - 1 do table.insert(left, left[i] + a[i]) table.insert(right, 1, right[1] + a[al - i + 1]) end local out = {} for i = 1, al do table.insert(out, math.abs(left[i] - right[i])) end return out end if recursive_compare(leftrightsumdiff({10, 4, 8, 3}), {15, 1, 11, 22}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(leftrightsumdiff({1}), {0}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(leftrightsumdiff({1, 2, 3, 4, 5}), {14, 11, 6, 1, 10}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")