Basic lua: Basics - Revision history

AFRLme at 13:00, 5 September 2022

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 == Comments ==
 === Single line comments ===
-Can ''only'' be placed on their '''own line''' or at the '''end''' of a line.
+Can '''only''' be placed on their '''own line''' or at the '''end''' of a line.
 <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
 -- this is a single line comment

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 == Comments ==
 === Single line comments ===
-Can ''only'' be placed on their ''own line'' or at the ''end'' of a line.
+Can ''only'' be placed on their '''own line''' or at the '''end''' of a line.
 <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
 -- this is a single line comment

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 | class="i_arrow clickablecell" | [[basic_lua:_Operators|>]]
 |}
+<hr>
 Here I am covering a few of the basic fundamentals of Lua script that I can't really create individual pages for. You will probably see most of these - in one context, or another - throughout the various pages of this guide.
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 </syntaxhighlight>
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 print(a .. " " .. b) -- prints "hello world" - we had to add " " to create a space between the 2 words
 </syntaxhighlight>
 == Global vs Local ==

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 == Concatenation ==
-Concatenation is essentially the joining of two or more strings & is represented by two full stops like so <span class="inlinecode">..</span>.
+Concatenation is essentially the joining of two or more strings & is represented by two full stops, like so <span class="inlinecode">..</span>
 <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
 a = "hello"

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 </syntaxhighlight>
 == Variables ==
-Variables are keywords that you can use to store data/tables inside of. Variables can be local or global scope & do not require you to specify their type when creating them
+Variables are like keywords that you can use to store & access data. Variables in Lua script can be local or global in scope, & unlike most other programming languages, they do not require you to specify their type when creating them as variables can be overwritten at any time with new data.
 <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
 a = 1 -- this is a global variable