Return values from dostring

Question: How can I get the return value of the Lua chunk executed by lua_dostring from the C side, i.e. like getting the result returned by the Lua dostring function?

(lhf) Just like the return values of any function. Here is an example:

lua_State *L=lua_open(0);
printf( "%d\n", lua_gettop(L) );
lua_dostring(L, "return 1,'a'" );
printf( "%d\n", lua_gettop(L) );
printf( "%s\n", lua_tostring(L,-2) );
printf( "%s\n", lua_tostring(L,-1) );

In general, you should take the k top values in the stack, where k is the difference between lua_gettop(L) before calling lua_dostring and lua_gettop(L) after calling it, that is, for indices from -1 to -k.

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Note: These examples are for Lua 4.0. VersionNotice

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Example code for Lua 5.0:

returnone.c:

#include <lua.h>
#include <lualib.h>
int main()
{
 lua_State *L=lua_open();
 printf( "%d\n", lua_gettop(L) );
 lua_dostring(L, "return 1,'a'" );
 printf( "%d\n", lua_gettop(L) );
 printf( "%s\n", lua_tostring(L,-2) );
 printf( "%s\n", lua_tostring(L,-1) );
 return 0;
}

Build:

gcc -o returnone returnone.c -I/usr/include/lua50 -llua50 -llualib50

Run: # ./returnone

0
2
1
a

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Example code for Lua 5.1.1:

lua_dostring() no longer exists:

returnone.c:

#include <lua.h>
#include <lualib.h>
#include <lauxlib.h>
int main()
{
 lua_State *L = luaL_newstate();
 char buff[] = "return 1,'a'";
 int error;
 printf( "%d\n", lua_gettop(L) );
 error = luaL_loadbuffer(L, buff, strlen(buff), "my test") || lua_pcall(L, 0, LUA_MULTRET, 0);
 if (error) {
 fprintf(stderr, "%s", lua_tostring(L, -1));
 lua_pop(L, 1); /* pop error message from the stack */
 }
 printf( "%d\n", lua_gettop(L) );
 printf( "%s\n", lua_tostring(L,-2) );
 printf( "%s\n", lua_tostring(L,-1) );
 return 0;
}

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