#! /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 -- bart at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1426954/split-string-in-lua function split(inputstr, sep) sep=sep or '%s' local t={} for field,s in string.gmatch(inputstr, "([^"..sep.."]*)("..sep.."?)") do table.insert(t,field) if s=="" then return t end end end function splitstrings(a, sep) local p = {} for _i, s in ipairs(a) do for _j, n in ipairs(split(s), sep) do if #n > 0 then table.insert(p, n) end end end return p end if recursive_compare(splitstrings({"one.two.three", "four.five", "six"}, "."), {"one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(splitstrings({"$perl$$", "$$raku$"}, "$"), {"perl", "raku"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")