Lua Comments

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Published Aug 4, 2023Updated Jan 19, 2025
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A comment is text within a program that is not being executed. It can provide additional information to help understand the code.

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Single-line Comments

In Lua, two consecutive dashes are used to create single-line comments. The compiler reads no text after -- on the same line.

function sum(number1, number2)
-- this is a comment
sum = number1 + number2
return sum
end

The comment does not affect the function.

Multi-line Comments

In Lua, multi-line comments are created using the --[[ syntax to start the comment and ]] to end the comment. The compiler does not read any text in between.

--[[ this is a multi-line comment.
 The compiler
 will not run code
 written in between.
]]

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