Re: How access local variables with load*() functions

[Peter Shook <peter.shook.engineer@...>]

On 9/8/05, Mildred <ml.mildred593@online.fr> wrote:
> I just realized that I can't access locals variables with aly load*() function (load, loadfile, loadstring, dofile)
> What can I do to access those locals variables ?

In Lua 5.1, loadstring returns a function that you can pass arguments
to and they will be placed in the magic ... list like so:

local fun = loadstring[[
    print 'second'
    local x, y, z = ...
    print('x','y','z')
    print(x, y, z)
]]

local a, b, c = 'one', 'two', 'three'

print 'first'
print('a','b','c')
print(a, b, c)
assert(fun)(a, b, c)

The script above will output the following:

first
a       b       c
one     two     three
second
x       y       z
one     two     three

Cheers,

- Peter Shook