-- reads luac listings and reports global variable usage -- lines where a global is written to are marked with "*" -- typical usage: luac -p -l file.lua | lua globals.lua | sort | lua table.lua while 1 do local s=io.read() if s==nil then break end local ok,_,l,op,g=string.find(s,"%[%-?(%d*)%]%s*([GS])ETGLOBAL.-;%s+(.*)$") if ok then if op=="S" then op="*" else op="" end io.write(g,"\t",l,op,"\n") end end