Get Globals from a file/scope

[Resike]

Anyone know a function/script for this? The best thing i could came up is this:

for k, v in pairs(_G) do
    if string.find(tostring(k), "AddonName") then
        print("Global key", k, "value", v)
    end
end

That will probably print out your global vars and functions from your addon, but it's not the best.

[Resike]

Meanwhile i came up with this:

To start of the file:

local globalsStart = { }
 
for k, v in pairs(_G) do
    globalsStart[k] = v
end

To end of the file you want to check:

local globalsEnd = { }
 
for k, v in pairs(_G) do
    globalsEnd[k] = v
end
 
for k, v in pairs(globalsEnd) do
    if globalsEnd[k] ~= globalsStart[k] then
        print("Global key", k, "value", v)
    end
end

[Dridzt]

Use this: FindGlobals

After following the instructions to have the script working I'm also using this batch file to be able to drag and drop lua files on it for testing (windows).

%cd%\luac-wow.exe -l %1 | %cd%\lua-wow.exe globals.lua %1 >globals.txt

You can also set it up as an external tool in your preferred IDE or advanced text editor, or as a shell extension to files and folders with a little more preparation, but I find the batch file sufficient for my needs.

[Resike]

I've tried to set it up for SubLime but i'm getting this error on scriptrun:

[Decode error - output not utf-8]
[Finished in 0.0s with exit code 255]

Edit: Got it working now, it's somehow doesn't eat non-UTF folder names. (It's the ****en 21st century and we still on goddamn ANSI/ASCII.)

But thanks for the suggestion.

[myrroddin]

Find Globals works great, but I find the wrapper app much easier to use.

[Resike]

Originally Posted by myrroddin Find Globals works great, but I find the wrapper app much easier to use.

That could come handy too, but if you set a system script with Sublime you can get the same results from the current file you working on just by running the script with 1 button.

[Vlad]

I personally use Notepad++ and the lua global finder program, so when I hit F5 to execute the lua file it actually parses it and prints what globals I reference, create, e.g.