Re: Function Source

[Matthew Paul Del Buono <delbu9c1@...>]

>   I'm looking for a way to get the source string of a
>   function from Lua, but I'd rather not have to parse
>   it myself.
>    
>   Using the debug library, I see that I could get the
>   source filename, and line numbers of where the
>   function was defined...But I was hoping there was a
>   way for me to ask the debug library to give me
>   exactly the string that was used to define the
>   function, and nothing more.  This would only be for
>   named functions.
>    

You will find that debug.getinfo() does have the source used to create the chunk when you use loadstring()

> loadstring[[function foo() print("Hello World!"); end; function bar() end]]() print(debug.getinfo(foo).source)
function foo() print("Hello World!"); end; function bar() end

However this isn't quite what you asked for. It may be a usable workaround, though. If not, I don't think that it should be incredibly difficult to add in (though it seems too expensive to me for something that would be provided in Vanilla Lua)

Regards,
-- Matthew P. Del Buono