Require

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: (global)

Description

Loads and runs libraries. Roughly, require does the same job as dofile, but, require searches for the file in a path. Because of that, require is the preferred function in Lua for loading libraries.

require(packagename)

Parameters

packagename: (string) library to load

See also

Loading Order of Lua Files

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• (global)

• assert
• collectgarbage
• dofile
• error
• getfenv
• getmetatable
• ipairs
• loadfile
• loadstring
• next
• pairs
• pcall
• print
• rawequal
• rawget
• rawset
• require
• select
• setfenv
• setmetatable
• tonumber
• tostring
• type
• unpack
• xpcall

• _G
• _VERSION

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