Module pl.luabalanced
Extract delimited Lua sequences from strings.
Inspired by Damian Conway's Text::Balanced in Perl.
- [1] Lua Wiki Page
- [2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Balanced/lib/Text/Balanced.pm
local lb = require "pl.luabalanced"
--Extract Lua expression starting at position 4.
print(lb.match_expression("if x^2 + x > 5 then print(x) end", 4))
--> x^2 + x > 5 16
--Extract Lua string starting at (default) position 1.
print(lb.match_string([["test\"123" .. "more"]]))
--> "test\"123" 12
(c) 2008, David Manura, Licensed under the same terms as Lua (MIT license).