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Runs an engine script from the Lua runtime.

script "var bob fred"

Arguments

• script - the block of text to be run as a script in the engine.

Associations

• Is by default placed in the default Lua runtime.

Details

A global Lua runtime function that runs a script from Lua.

Examples

Default values

From Lua creates an engine variable 'bob' and prints its value:

script 'var bob fred;bob'

Creates a Lua function that sets and prints an engine variable and runs it from script, all from inside Lua.

function fred(s) script 'bob ' + s + ';bob' end
script "lua fred('james')"

Prints 'james'