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debug.setlocal

Debug Lua Commands

SYNOPSIS

debug.setlocal([thread,]level,local,value)

DESCRIPTION

This function assigns the value value to the local variable with index local of the function at level level of the stack.

RETURN VALUE

Returns the name of the local variable

ERRORS

The function returns nil if there is no local variable with the given index, and raises an error when called with a level out of range. (You can call getinfo to check whether the level is valid.)