Lua utilities

The "utils" (utilities) library offers various helpful utility functions, including:

• Bringing a different program window to the front
• Compression and decompression
• Hashing using various methods
• Base-64 encoding and decoding
• Dialog boxes for asking questions and making announcements
• Dialog boxes for choosing from lists and combo-boxes
• Executing Windows "shell" commands
• File-picker dialog box
• Spell-checker "misspelt word" dialog box
• Spell-checker utilities such as metaphone and edit distance
• Conversion of strings to and from hexadecimal form
• Read disk directory into a table
• Information about MUSHclient environment (directory names)
• List of world function names
• List of plugin callback function names
• Split a string into a table, at delimiters (eg. comma-delimited)
• UTF-8 (Unicode) encoding, decoding and checking
• XML parser

See also the following libraries:

• Perl-compatible regular expressions library (rex)
• Big number (arbitrary precision) library (bc)
• Bit management library (bit)

You can also use the luacom library (to access COM objects). To do this you must first "require" it, like this:

require "luacom"

There is documentation about luacom in a PDF document in the MUSHclient docs subdirectory.