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Lua Cheat Sheet
Print-ready cheat sheet for Lua, organized for fast lookup, study, and desk-side use
Sample
What's in this cheat sheet
- Basics
- Types
- Tables
- Functions
- Control Flow
- Strings
- Metatables
- Coroutines
- Modules
- Common Patterns
Hello World
print("Hello, Lua!")
Variables & Assignment
local name = "Lua" -- local variable
x = 10 -- global (avoid)
local a, b = 1, 2 -- multiple assignment
a, b = b, a -- swap values
Comments
-- single line comment
--[[ multi-line
comment ]]
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