I'm trying to pick up Lua programming but I'm stuck on something that's probably trivial. I'm prototyping some Lua scripts using Kahlua from IntelliJ Idea 11 and I keep getting errors whenever I try to use io.read(). Here's what I currently have:
require "io"
print("input:")
a = io.read() -- read a number
print(a)
When I run it in Idea I get "Tried to call nil at interpreter:1" If I remove the require and the blank line after it I get "input: attempted index of non-table: null at interpreter:2" What am I doing wrong?
Kahula doesn't support the io library.
Your best bet would be to set up a real Lua SDK, and use the run lua console feature.