Libx Lua Documentation

    Lua 5.5.1 Latest
    Aug 3, 2026
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    • Overview
      • About Lua 5.5
      • Installing Lua
      • Lua license
      • Introduction
    • Language
      • Basic concepts: values and types
      • Scopes, variables and environments
      • Error handling
      • Metatables and metamethods
      • Garbage collection
      • Coroutines
      • The language: lexical conventions
      • Variables
      • Statements
      • Expressions
      • Complete syntax of Lua
    • C API
      • C API overview
      • The stack
      • C closures
      • Registry
      • Error handling in C
      • Handling yields in C
      • C API functions and types: absindex–compare
      • C API functions and types: concat–gc
      • C API functions and types: getallocf–getiuservalue
      • C API functions and types: insert–load
      • C API functions and types: newstate–pcallk
      • C API functions and types: pop–pushvfstring
      • C API functions and types: rawequal–rotate
      • C API functions and types: setallocf–stringtonumber
      • C API functions and types: toboolean–typename
      • C API functions and types: Unsigned–yieldk
      • The debug interface
    • Auxiliary library
      • Auxiliary library overview
      • Auxiliary functions and types: addchar–buffsub
      • Auxiliary functions and types: callmeta–checkversion
      • Auxiliary functions and types: dofile–loadstring
      • Auxiliary functions and types: makeseed–pushresultsize
      • Auxiliary functions and types: ref–where
    • Standard library
      • Standard libraries overview
      • Loading libraries in C code
      • Basic functions
      • Coroutine manipulation
      • Modules
      • String manipulation
      • UTF-8 support
      • Table manipulation
      • Mathematical functions
      • Input and output facilities
      • Operating system facilities
      • The debug library
    • Tools
      • Lua standalone
      • lua command
      • luac command
    • Migration and known issues
      • Changes since Lua 5.4
      • Incompatibilities with Lua 5.4
      • Known issues in Lua 5.5.1

    Lua 5.5.1

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    Lua 5.5.1 Documentation
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    Lua 5.5.1
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