Lua·Lua essentials

Setup and syntax

Lua is small and embeddable, with tables as its only compound data structure.

Beginner 10 min read Lesson 1 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Assign with =.
  • Tables use {}.
  • Print with print().

In plain English

Lua is small and embeddable, with tables as its only compound data structure.

  • Assign with =.
  • Tables use {}.
  • Print with print().
hello.luaLUA
local name = "Ada"
local scores = {90, 85, 88}
print("Hello, " .. name)
print(#scores)
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Answer from memory: Which operator concatenates strings in Lua?

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