Is Overriding Lua Files Possible?

[NobleFalcon]

I'm interested in knowing whether it's possible to override existing Lua files while maintaining full access to the source file's methods and networking. I need to alter the behavior of the existing lua file without losing their inherent network communication abilities and method implementations.

For example net.ReadUInt(16) or local obj = OBJ.RANK will no longer be accessible if I use:

if (gluasteal.SCRIPT:match("cl_ranks")) then
    gluasteal.include("cl_ranks.lua")
    return false
end

[lewisclark]

You can store the contents of a file at execution time using the gluasteal.SOURCE variable - from there you can programmatically pull out the code you require and execute it using RunString. I would prefer to achieve the desired result by overriding global functions it calls or copying all code required into a new replacement file to be executed instead.