Solved Send std::map to LUA as a table

[Snavy]

TFS: 1.3

I have the following std::map and I am trying to push this to lua.

std::map<AccountType_t, std::vector<std::string>> finalMap;

desired result & example usage:

local result = resultFromMethod() -- finalMap
for i=1, #result[ACCOUNT_TYPE_NORMAL] do
    local tableOfStrings = result[ACCOUNT_TYPE_NORMAL][i]
    for j=1, #tableOfStrings do
        print("cool string here " .. tableOfStrings[j])
    end
end

I haven't fully understood how the lua_ methods work yet.

How could I achieve the desired result?

EDIT:
I have looked at lua reference manual and written the following but I'm not sure if this is the right path.

    lua_createtable(L, finalMap.size(), 0);
  
    for (auto &ta: finalMap) {
        lua_setfield(L, lua_gettop(L), ta.first);    // create KEY ?
        lua_settable(L, lua_gettop(L));              // set a table to key ? key = {} ? o.0
        lua_gettable(L, lua_gettop(L));              // get recently set table ( ? )
        for (auto &s: ta.second) {
            pushString(L, s);                        // push words from std::vector into the table (?)
        }
    }

EDIT 2 ( Solved ):

Came across davidm/lua2c (https://github.com/davidm/lua2c) and set it up with a sample lua code.
It generated the following:

  /* local mytbl = {
   *     [1] = {"asd","fdsa","pasd"},
   *     [2] = {"hes","zzz","fff"}
   * } */
  lua_createtable(L,0,2);
  lua_pushnumber(L,1);
  lua_createtable(L,3,0);
  lua_pushliteral(L,"asd");
  lua_rawseti(L,-2,1);
  lua_pushliteral(L,"fdsa");
  lua_rawseti(L,-2,2);
  lua_pushliteral(L,"pasd");
  lua_rawseti(L,-2,3);
  lua_rawset(L,-3);
  lua_pushnumber(L,2);
  lua_createtable(L,3,0);
  lua_pushliteral(L,"hes");
  lua_rawseti(L,-2,1);
  lua_pushliteral(L,"zzz");
  lua_rawseti(L,-2,2);
  lua_pushliteral(L,"fff");
  lua_rawseti(L,-2,3);
  lua_rawset(L,-3);

after modifying I ended up with :

    lua_createtable(L, finalMap.size(), 0);

    for (auto &ta: finalMap) {
        lua_pushnumber(L, ta.first);                 // inner table key
        lua_createtable(L, ta.second.size(), 0);     // create inner table

        uint32_t index = 0;
        for (auto &word: ta.second) {
            pushString(L, word);            // table element
            lua_rawseti(L, -2, ++index);    // table element index
        }

        lua_rawset(L, -3);
    }