[Freeswitch-users] LUA - Call a Function through a variable name

[Chad Phillips]

Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> function foo() print "hello" end
> bar = foo
> bar()
hello
> 

or, if you really want to have the function name as a string, there are some suggestions here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1791234/lua-call-function-from-a-string-with-function-name

hunmonk 


On Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Lloyd Aloysius wrote:

> Hello 
> 
> Does lua support , Call a Function through a variable name
> 
> Ex:
> 
> function playfile()
> 
> end
> 
> variable_a = "playfile" 
> 
> how to call the variable_a , that execute function? 
> 
> Thanks
> Lloyd
> 
> 
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