luaL_newstate[-0, +0, –] lua_State *luaL_newstate (void); Creates a new Lua state. It calls lua_newstate with an allocator based on the standard C realloc function and then sets a panic function (see §4.6) that prints an error message to the standard error output in case of fatal errors. Returns the new state, or NULL if there is a memory allocation error.

luaL_newmetatable[-0, +1, m] int luaL_newmetatable (lua_State *L, const char *tname); If the registry already has the key tname, returns 0. Otherwise, creates a new table to be used as a metatable for userdata, adds to this new table the pair __name = tname, adds to the registry the pair [tname] = new table, and returns 1. (The entry __name is used by some error-reporting functions.) In both cases pushes onto the stack the final value associated with tname in the registry.

luaL_newlibtable[-0, +1, m] void luaL_newlibtable (lua_State *L, const luaL_Reg l[]); Creates a new table with a size optimized to store all entries in the array l (but does not actually store them). It is intended to be used in conjunction with luaL_setfuncs (see luaL_newlib). It is implemented as a macro. The array l must be the actual array, not a pointer to it.

luaL_newlib[-0, +1, m] void luaL_newlib (lua_State *L, const luaL_Reg l[]); Creates a new table and registers there the functions in list l. It is implemented as the following macro: (luaL_newlibtable(L,l), luaL_setfuncs(L,l,0)) The array l must be the actual array, not a pointer to it.

luaL_loadstring[-0, +1, –] int luaL_loadstring (lua_State *L, const char *s); Loads a string as a Lua chunk. This function uses lua_load to load the chunk in the zero-terminated string s. This function returns the same results as lua_load. Also as lua_load, this function only loads the chunk; it does not run it.

luaL_loadfilex[-0, +1, m] int luaL_loadfilex (lua_State *L, const char *filename, const char *mode); Loads a file as a Lua chunk. This function uses lua_load to load the chunk in the file named filename. If filename is NULL, then it loads from the standard input. The first line in the file is ignored if it starts with a #. The string mode works as in function lua_load. This function returns the same results as lua_load, but it has an extra erro

luaL_loadfile[-0, +1, m] int luaL_loadfile (lua_State *L, const char *filename); Equivalent to luaL_loadfilex with mode equal to NULL.

luaL_loadbufferx[-0, +1, –] int luaL_loadbufferx (lua_State *L, const char *buff, size_t sz, const char *name, const char *mode); Loads a buffer as a Lua chunk. This function uses lua_load to load the chunk in the buffer pointed to by buff with size sz. This function returns the same results as lua_load. name is the chunk name, used for debug information and error messages. The string mode works as in f

luaL_loadbuffer[-0, +1, –] int luaL_loadbuffer (lua_State *L, const char *buff, size_t sz, const char *name); Equivalent to luaL_loadbufferx with mode equal to NULL.

luaL_len[-0, +0, e] lua_Integer luaL_len (lua_State *L, int index); Returns the "length" of the value at the given index as a number; it is equivalent to the '#' operator in Lua (see §3.4.7). Raises an error if the result of the operation is not an integer. (This case only can happen through metamethods.)