Re: Getting local variable debug info from within a nested function.

["Sherry Zhang" <yuleopen@...>]

On 6/17/07, Matthew Armstrong <turkeypotpie@gmail.com> wrote:
> This thing is pretty f*%#ing cool!  Thanks for writing this.  It has more
> features, and is easier to use than what I was trying to do, so I'll
> definitely be using this.
>
> One small point:  Is there a way to print a table?  You can print the keys,
> if you know them, but I didn't see a way of reflecting a table.
>
> I have a special print function (called ppr), which prints the first level
> keys if the variable happens to be a table.  So I can say:
>
> exec ppr(myVar)
>
> This works ok for me, but I'm always looking for ways to lazyfy my typing.
>
>
>
> On 6/13/07, Matthew Armstrong <turkeypotpie@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good deal.  I'll just have to try it out then!
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/13/07, Stefan Brantschen < sbr@acm.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 14 Jun 2007, at 07:56, Matthew Armstrong wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a way to run ldb within an embedded script?
> > >
> > > You can invoke ldb() at any location in the Lua code.
> > >
> > > With regards
> > > -- Stefan
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
hi, here is one possible implementation.

function TableDump(atable, prefix, tablelevel)
   prefix = prefix or ""
   if tablelevel == nil then tablelevel = "" end

   print(prefix.."-Dumping Table "..tablelevel, atable)
   prefix = prefix.."  "
   local n = 0

   for k, v in pairs(atable) do
       n = n + 1
       print(prefix..n..":", tablelevel.."["..k.."]", v)
       if type(v) == "table" then
           TableDump(v, prefix.."  ", tablelevel.."["..k.."]")
       end
   end
end