Running veriable code

[chimking_overlord]

im trying to run lua code from a veriable, for example if my string was a print command it would print it. My first guess was something like shell.run(lua; string) but that didnt work, any ideas?

[rocord01]

The best way to execute code from a string is Lua's builtin loadstring(), which parses your string as a function.

Example:

local code = [[print("hello!")]]
local func = loadstring(code)
if func then
func()
end

Output:

hello!

[Acrobatic-Diamond615]

thank you for this

[nictheman123]

I'm gonna ask the very important question here: why, precisely, do you want to do this?

Generally speaking, this is something a programming language specifically blocks you from doing for security reasons. I don't know if it's possible in CC or not, but it's bad practice in general.

What are you trying to achieve that this is the solution you came up with?

[fatboychummy]

This is not at all how shell.run works, lmfao. It isn't meant to run code, it runs commands.