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- Subject: Re: linked variable
- From: "Jim Whitehead II" <jnwhiteh@...>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:05:27 -0500
You can use loadstring, i.e.
Lua 5.1.1 Copyright (C) 1994-2006 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> t = {a = true}
> =loadstring("return t.a")()
true
>
In your case something like this should work:
loadstring("return " .. path_to_n2)()
On 12/1/06, wang xu <xu4wang@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
If I have a string containing the path to a varialble, for example:
> n1={n2="hello"}
> =n1.n2
hello
> path_to_n2="n1.n2"
> print(path_to_n2)
n1.n2
>
Given variable path_to_n2, how can I get the value of n1.n2 ?
