Re: Lua Parser

[Erik Hougaard <erik@...>]

On 17-07-2012 21:40, Igor Medeiros wrote:
> i am sorry for ask something like this, but i did not understand which 
> function of lpeg i should use to parser a string which contains a lua 
> code sample
>
> local code = [[
>    --some lua code here
> ]]
>
> i tried print(lpeg.match(lpeg.P(lua), code)) but it prints just the 
> index of first character after the match or nil if the match does not 
> occur
>
> I need a error message like those showed by lua interpreter when it 
> find a syntactic error, instead the nil value printed .
> How can i get this errors messages using the lpeg and the Lua Parser 
> code found on this page http://lua-users.org/wiki/LpegRecipes?

Am I missing the point, or do you just need to use the standard function 
loadstring ( http://www.lua.org/pil/8.html ) ?

/Erik