Understanding a Lua File (Sol C++)

‘return’ means the same thing in Lua as in C++: it returns a value. Here the value that it returns is a table.

Ah okay,

Thanks! So it is a table. Well, that helps. I must have been reading the table wrong then.

@a light breeze

So let me ask you this? Since it's returning a table and it has no name, what would be doing to store it into a name to read it?

In the Sol library, they have a convenient way of just doing Lua["Table"]["Version"]. Except this is just returning a table with no identifier?

auto script = lua.load("return {x = 24}"); // Load a script somehow.
auto result = script(); // Run it, and save the return value.
assert(result["x"] == 24); // You now have the result.

(Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested the above code.)

Hey appreciate it! It's 4:30 here I've been messing with this for 4 hours! I'll try it in the morning.

Thanks for at least the attempt!

@a light breeze Hey, so I tried your example, I don't think you can call result like that. Also, for anyone familiar with Sol, most of the examples use a call to script or this load where they plug in the information. I believe you use script_file and load_file equivalent for the files and I just was hoping to make sure that is correct.

Thanks for the help.

Talked to the developer and solved it. Thanks