Lua Basics Guide

_VERSION states that PA is using Lua 5.1 as of Alpha34 release.

Most of the standard Lua features are available to your scripts...

##Global functions

• assert() and error()
• getfenv() and setfenv()
• getmetatable() and setmetatable()
• next(), ipairs() and pairs()
• load() and loadstring()
• module(), but sadly no require()
• pcall() and xpcall()
• rawequal()
• rawget() and rawset()
• select()
• tonumber(), tostring()
• type()
• unpack()

##Libraries

• math - functions for working with numbers
• string - functions for working with strings
• table - functions for working with tables