NAME

luaL_getmetafield — pushes onto the stack the field from the metatable of the object at the specified index, function indicator [-0, + (0|1), m]

SYNOPSIS

#include <lauxlib.h>

int
luaL_getmetafield(lua_State *L, int obj, const char *e);

DESCRIPTION

luaL_getmetafield() pushes onto the stack the field e from the metatable of the object at index obj. If the object does not have a metatable, or if the metatable does not have this field, returns 0 and pushes nothing.

SEE ALSO

Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes, Lua 5.1 Reference Manual.

HISTORY

The luaL_getmetafield() manual page is based on Lua Reference Manual 5.1 and was created by Sergey Bronnikov.