The Basic Library

Write values to stdout (uses tostring) tostring(v) / tonumber(v [, base]) pairs(t) / ipairs(t) / next(t, k) select(n,...) Varargs access/count

rawget, rawset, rawequal, rawlen setmetatable, getmetatable assert(v, msg), error(msg, level)

pcall(f,...), xpcall(f, handler,...) load(chunk, name, mode, env), loadfile, dofile collectgarbage(opt,...) Warnings (5.4) _G, _VERSION Global table, version string unpack (5.1) → table.unpack (5.2+) Spread a table into values