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'Include' files in Lua

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (22,975 posts) bio Forum Administrator

Date Sat 27 Nov 2004 11:55 PM (UTC)

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We have had questions in the past about "including" standard scripts into a script file.

Lua provides a very simple function for doing that: dofile.

If you have some standard commands that you want to share, simply do this:


dofile "myfilename.lua"

You might want to prepend a path, for example the MUSHclient executable or worlds path. For example:


path = GetInfo (57) -- World files default path (directory)

In that case your include command may look like this:


dofile (GetInfo (57) .. "myfilename.lua")

There is also a "require" function that works similarly, but searches a path (which you can specify) and doesn't load the same file twice.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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