#! /usr/bin/lua -- 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 getlistset(a) local la = split(a) local ca = {} for _, w in ipairs(la) do if ca[w] == nil then ca[w] = 1 else ca[w] = ca[w] + 1 end end local lb = {} for _, w in ipairs(la) do if ca[w] == 1 then table.insert(lb, w) end end return {lb, ca} end function uncommonwords(a, b) local ta = getlistset(a) local la = ta[1] local sa = ta[2] local tb = getlistset(b) local lb = tb[1] local sb = tb[2] local out = {} for _, wx in pairs({{la,sb}, {lb, sa}}) do local wl = wx[1] local t = wx[2] for _, w in ipairs(wl) do if t[w] == nil then table.insert(out, w) end end end return out end -- 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 if recursive_compare(uncommonwords("Mango is sweet", "Mango is sour"), {"sweet", "sour"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(uncommonwords("Mango Mango", "Orange"), {"Orange"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(uncommonwords("Mango is Mango", "Orange is Orange"), {}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")