Re: Splitting Lua scripts

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

thomas.heidenreich@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
> *I am working since a few days with the program FEMM and I am not very 
> familiar with the scripting language lua. I have a little problem: I 
> wrote a quite big lua script file and want to split it into multiple 
> little lua script files in order to make it more orderly. But how? Here 
> my questions:
> - If possible, how can I call  another lua script file?
> - Which format (.lua?) must these multiple lua script files have?
> -Do they have to be in the same directory as the calling lua script file?
> *
> **Thanks for your answer!

I support you are talking about this program: Finite Element Method 
Magnetics <http://femm.foster-miller.net/>, as the features mention Lua 
scripting.

I don't know this implementation, but in standard Lua, the classical way 
of calling another Lua script file is to use dofile[[Path/of/script]].
If the scripts are in the same directory, no need for path. Otherwise, 
you can specify relative or absolute path.
Which format? Plain Lua files, or bytecode generated by LuaC.

For finer control, you may want to look at loadfile, pcall, require, 
unless FEMM is using Lua 4.0 or lower. See the Lua doc.

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