Is there someplace that one can find a listing of Lua message error definitions?

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> Is there someplace that one can find a listing of Lua message error definitions?

A list like this would be a good addition to the reference manual. You can generate a list that picks up the error messages from the source code with the following script.

  local function file_contents_get(file_str)
    local str
    local hnd = io.open(file_str, "r")
    if hnd then
      str = hnd:read("*all")
      hnd:close()
    end
    return str
  end

  local tbl = {}
  for j, file_str in ipairs(arg) do
    local str = file_contents_get(file_str)
    if str then
      str = string.gsub(str, "%s+", " ")
      str = string.gsub(str, "%c+", "")
      str = string.gsub(str, "luaL_error", "\001")
      str = string.gsub(str, "luaL_argerror", "\001")
      str = string.gsub(str, "luaX_syntaxerror",
        "\001")
      str = string.gsub(str, "luaX_lexerror", "\001")
      for err_str in string.gmatch(str,
        '\001%(.-%,%s*(.-)%)%;') do
        if string.match(err_str, '"') then
          tbl[#tbl + 1] = err_str
        end
      end
    end
  end
  table.sort(tbl)
  for j, str in ipairs(tbl) do
    print(str)
  end

This script assumes that the names of the Lua C source files will be passed in as arguments.

--
Kurt