Basit bir lua programlama örneği:
occupants = {"Jones","Smith","Patel","Brown","Ng"}
occupants[1] = "Roberts"
occupants[6] = "Lee"
occupants[9] = "Forsythe"
occupants[8] = "Campbell"
occupants["llareggub"] = "Thomas"
-- indexed section - sequential from start
for dis,dat in ipairs(occupants)...