Re: pcre regex with capture

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Chris Datfung wrote:
> I've read through the lrexlib doco, but can't seem to get Lua to parse a
> string and capture text. For example in the string:
>
> <myMarker>captureMe</myMarker>
>
> I want to get the string 'captureMe'.

For example:

-- With Lrexlib/PCRE:
local rex = require "rex_pcre"
local c = rex.match(text, "<myMarker>(.*?)</myMarker>")

-- or with Lua string library:
local c = string.match(text, "<myMarker>(.-)</myMarker>")

--
Shmuel