Re: problem with luaL_dofile

[Peter Odding <xolox@...>]

Roger D Vargas wrote:
> I was  using luaL_loadbuffer to execute scripts loaded from a file, with
> good results, excepting that I couldnt use comments because all file was
> passed as a single line.
> So, i tried to change the code to use luaL_loadfile:
>
>     if (filename.length() > 0) {
>         int error = luaL_dofile(luaVM, filename.c_str())
>             || lua_pcall(luaVM, 0, 0, 0);
>             if (error) {
>                 cout << lua_tostring(luaVM, -1) << endl;
>                 lua_pop(luaVM, 1);
>             }
>     }
>
> But this causes a lot of errors on script that worked perfectly with
> previous version. What am I doing wrong here?

Are you aware that luaL_dofile() is defined as follows?

#define luaL_dofile(L, fn) \
	(luaL_loadfile(L, fn) || lua_pcall(L, 0, LUA_MULTRET, 0))

 - Peter Odding