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Lua can process text strings in excess of 230,000 characters, which allows the formatted contents of article pages to be used as input to string searches. However, there have been some limitations in string contents, such as hidden strings enclosed in nowiki-tag or pre-tag elements.
The NewPP parser hits the huge delays when passing 6,000 parameters whether to Lua, or to a template, or to a #switch parser function of 6,000 "|x=" branches. See expanded description and time-delay formula at: "WT:Lua#Passing 1,000 parameters exponentially slower". More later. -Wikid77 12:32, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
A table is a sequence, optionally supplemented by named keys: digit["two"]="2". Several table functions like table.concat will only work with the numbered values and ignore named keys. The metatable offers a large, optional set of methods for altering table behavior. For example, you can define a table to be callable like a function.
Help:Lua for beginners; Help:Lua debugging – about debugging Lua modules; Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency; Module:Sandbox provides a pseudo-namespace for experimenting with Lua modules
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The C API also provides some special tables, located at various "pseudo-indices" in the Lua stack. At LUA_GLOBALSINDEX prior to Lua 5.2 [21] is the globals table, _G from within Lua, which is the main namespace. There is also a registry located at LUA_REGISTRYINDEX where C programs can store Lua values for later retrieval.
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While you can write a script directly in your common.js page or skin.js (such as vector.js) page, it is usually better to create a new subpage for it in the form YourUserName/title.js, where title is the name of your script.