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The Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), an open source firmware for Canon cameras, uses Lua as one of two scripting languages. Celestia, the astronomy educational program, uses Lua as its scripting language. Cheat Engine, a memory editor/debugger, enables Lua scripts to be embedded in its "cheat table" files, and even includes a GUI designer.
Lua scripts may load extension modules using require, [20] just like modules written in Lua itself, or with package.loadlib. [22] When a C library is loaded via require ( 'foo' ) Lua will look for the function luaopen_foo and call it, which acts as any C function callable from Lua and generally returns a table filled with methods.
The script at Module:LuaCall has been written to accept any set of named parameters somename=value, for each one storing the string value in the variable with the name somename, and then allowing you to use these variables as parameters for any function available in Lua. The script then returns only the first value returned by the function (Lua ...
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A sample of Lua is highlighted by tag <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">...</syntaxhighlight> placed around the Lua source code. To view some more complex examples of Lua, see article: "Lua (programming language)". For instructions on how to use Lua within MediaWiki (and hence Wikipedia), see mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual.
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
Here are some short points about Lua, for those who already know other computer programming languages and how to program. They focus mainly upon what you might find different in Lua. Lua is dynamically typed. There's no static typing at all.
The string-search functions in Lua script can run extremely fast, comparing millions of characters per second. For example, a search of a 40,000-character article text, for 99 separate words (passed as 99 parameters in a template), ran within one second of Lua CPU clock time.