Re: help about pattern-matching

[Tom N Harris <telliamed@...>]

On 06/07/2011 06:46 PM, Igor Medeiros wrote:
> Excuse me if the question does not belong to this thread, but I'm not
> used to the lua patterns. I'm more used to define patterns using regex
>
> I have one more doubt. How do i define a lua pattern that corresponds to
> following regular expression?
>
> (systemScreen([1 .. 9])|systemAudio([1 .. 9]))
>
> that is, the text must be of type:
>
> systemScreen(1) or systemScreen(2) or ... or .. systemScreen(9) or
> systemAudio(1) or systemAudio(2) or ... or .. systemAudio(9)

Since the patterns have the same syntax as a Lua function call, you 
could also use 'loadstring' and execute the code in a sandbox with just 
the functions 'systemScreen' and 'systemAudio'. Assuming there isn't any 
other text that needs to be ignored.

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- tom
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