#! /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 unique(a) local ss = {} local b = {} for _, i in ipairs(a) do if ss[i] == nil then table.insert(b, i) ss[i] = true end end return b end function halfmissing(a, bh) local c = {} for _, i in ipairs(a) do if bh[i] == nil then table.insert(c, i) end end return unique(c) end function toset(a) local ss = {} for _, i in ipairs(a) do ss[i] = true end return ss end function missingmembers(a, b) local ah = toset(a) local bh = toset(b) return { halfmissing(a, bh), halfmissing(b, ah) } end if recursive_compare(missingmembers({1, 2, 3}, {2, 4, 6}), {{1, 3}, {4, 6}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(missingmembers({1, 2, 3, 3}, {1, 1, 2, 2}), {{3}, {}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")