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Quoth Gopalakrishnan Subramani <gopalakrishnan.subramani@gmail.com>, on 2010-11-25 16:35:22 +0530:
> I am trying to create a prototype, in that we have a Lua table and we want
> to enumerate the elements of the lua table in C++ and print them.
> 
> How to enumerate a lua table in C++? To get the lua table, we call a lua
> function in C++ and that lua function returns the lua table.
> 
> Any source code example would be appreciated.

Use lua_next, which is described quite well in the C API
documentation.  Start with a nil key, then keep retrieving the next
element from the table until you get another nil back which means
you're done.

   ---> Drake Wilson