Re: Need lpeg hint

[Peter Cawley <lua@...>]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Martin Kortmann <mail@kortmann.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to learn the usage of lpeg and i need a push to the right direction on the following problem:
>
> I will parse files with the following structure:
>
> blockname1 {
>  key1 value1
>  key2 value2
>  blockname2 {
>    key3 value3
>    blockname3 {
>      key4 value4
>    }
>    key5 value5
>  }
> }
>
> there are named blocks of datas, the datas are several key/value pairs or other named blocks of datas. Seem simple, but i don't get a right grammar for this syntax.
> Can someone give me a start for this?
>
> Thanks Martin

Very quickly thrown together, but seems to work for your example:
http://codepad.org/z49J4o8z