Lua Standard Libraries

These are the built-in libraries of Lua 5.1

Plus documentation for lpeg and luafilesystem.

Modules

coroutine creating and controlling coroutines.
debug getting runtime debug information.
global Lua global functions.
io Reading and Writing Files.
lfs File and Directory manipulation
lpeg LPeg PEG pattern matching.
math standard mathematical functions.
os Operating System facilities like date, time and program execution.
package controlling how require finds packages.
string string operations like searching and matching.
table manipulating Lua tables.
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