#! /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 submatrixsum(a) local out = {} for x = 1, #a - 1 do local row = {} for y = 1, #(a[x])-1 do local s = 0 for ya = y, y + 1 do for xa = x, x + 1 do s = s + a[y][x] end end table.insert(row, s) end table.insert(out, row) end return out end if recursive_compare(submatrixsum({{1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8}, {9, 10, 11, 12}}), {{14, 18, 22}, {30, 34, 38}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(submatrixsum({{1, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 1, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 1}}), {{2, 1, 0}, {1, 2, 1}, {0, 1, 2}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")