NAME

lua_setlocal — sets the value of a local variable of a given activation record, function indicator [- (0|1), +0, -]

SYNOPSIS

#include <lua.h>

const char *
lua_setlocal(lua_State *L, lua_Debug *ar, int n);

DESCRIPTION

lua_setlocal() sets the value of a local variable of a given activation record. Parameters ar and n are as in lua_getlocal(3). lua_setlocal() assigns the value at the top of the stack to the variable and returns its name. It also pops the value from the stack.

RETURN VALUES

Returns NULL (and pops nothing) when the index is greater than the number of active local variables.

SEE ALSO

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

HISTORY

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