Re: Evaluating files...

[Wim Couwenberg <w.couwenberg@...>]

> ...Is it
> possible to evaluate a file before attempting to run it (such as the -c
> argument with perl)?  In other words, can I check that it is
> syntactically correct in any way other than actual execution of the
> code.

Try:

    local chunk, err = loadfile("myfile.lua")

    if chunk then
       print("All's well")
    else
       print("error in file: " .. err)
    end

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Wim