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Lua Quick Start Guide
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Lua Quick Start Guide

by Gabor Szauer
July 2018
Beginner
202 pages
5h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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The debug.getinfo return value

No matter what the argument, the debug.getinfo function will return a table. This table will contain information about the function being inspected. When called with an integer, the return table will contain the following fields/variables:

  • source: Where the function is defined. This will contain the name of the file that a function is defined in.
  • short_src: A short textual version of the function, up to 60 characters.
  • linedefined: The first line of the source file where the function was defined.
  • lastlinedefined: The last line in the source file where the function was defined.
  • what: If the function is a "Lua" or a "C" function, the appropriate string will be returned.
  • name: Lua's best guess at the name of the ...
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