Re: saving/restoring all global variables

[Hans Fuchs <gucky@...>]

Hi Mario

whiteindian@arcor.de wrote:

> I want to save/restore all global variables to/from a file. I did search this list first and I found references to a save.lua contained in the distro that should demonstrate how to do this if I understood correctly but this file isn't part of the current Lua distro. I downloaded the Lua 4 version but it doesn't work with Lua 5. How do I do what I want in Lua 5?

I think you could use this

http://www.lua.org/pil/12.1.1.html

or this

http://www.lua.org/pil/12.1.2.html

You can let it save the global environment _G.

--- From the manual
_G
 A global variable (not a function) that holds the global environment 
(that is, _G._G = _G). Lua itself does not use this variable; changing 
its value does not affect any environment. (Use setfenv to change 
environments
---

Best,
	Hans