#! /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 mergeitems(a, b) local c = {} for i, v in ipairs({a, b}) do for j, w in ipairs(v) do if c[w[1]] == nil then c[w[1]] = 0 end c[w[1]] = c[w[1]] + w[2] end end local k = {} for t, _ in pairs(c) do table.insert(k, t) end table.sort(k) local out = {} for _, i in ipairs(k) do table.insert(out, {i, c[i]}) end return out end if recursive_compare(mergeitems({{1, 1}, {2, 1}, {3, 2}}, {{2, 2}, {1, 3}}), {{1, 4}, {2, 3}, {3, 2}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(mergeitems({{1, 2}, {2, 3}, {1, 3}, {3, 2}}, {{3, 1}, {1, 3}}), {{1, 8}, {2, 3}, {3, 3}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(mergeitems({{1, 1}, {2, 2}, {3, 3}}, {{2, 3}, {2, 4}}), {{1, 1}, {2, 9}, {3, 3}}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")