11. Overview Lua¶

Beginning with UniPlot R2016 the Lua scripting language can be used with UniPlot.

	Lua
lua_call	lua_call calls a Lua function.
lua_eval	lua_eval evaluates a Lua expression or executes a statement.
lua_get	lua_get uses the rawget function to return a value from the Lua table.
lua_require	lua_require invokes the Lua `require` function.
lua_set	lua_set is using the Lua rawset function to set a value in a Lua table.
lua_str	lua_str creates a string from a Lua table for debugging purposes.
lua_string	lua_string creates a UniSript string from a Lua string or a Lua string from a UniScript string.
lua_type	lua_type returns the type of a Lua value as a string, see type.