Use the length operator (#) instead of table.getn.

table.getn was deprecated in Lua 5.1 in favor of #, the length operator.
See: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#7.2

samples/lpr.lua

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ end
 do
     local opt = {}
     local pat = "[%s%c%p]*([%w]*)=([\"]?[%w%s_!@#$%%^&*()<>:;]+[\"]\?\.?)"
-    for i = 2, table.getn(arg), 1 do
+    for i = 2, #arg, 1 do
       string.gsub(arg[i], pat, function(name, value) opt[name] = value end)
     end
     if not arg[2] then

samples/tinyirc.lua

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ function newset()
         insert = function(set, value)
             if not reverse[value] then
                 table.insert(set, value)
-                reverse[value] = table.getn(set)
+                reverse[value] = #set
             end
         end,
         remove = function(set, value)