How to check if two tables(objects) have the same value in Lua

Question

I wanna check if two tables have the same value in Lua, but didn\'t find the way.

I use the operator ==, it seems just to check the same objects, but no

Answer 1

if you just want to compare 2 small tables, you may (ab)use inspect.

local ins = require 'inspect'
local assert_equal = require 'luassert' .equal

assert_equal(ins({ 1 , b = 30 }), ins({ b = 30, 1 }))

This approach takes advantage of that inspect sorts table elements when serializing an object. while cjson doesn't, which makes it unusable in this case.