Re: parsing improvement

[Lionel Duboeuf <lionel.duboeuf@...>]

Thanks dirk,

    But as i said, i need to specify a starting position (which doesn't 
exist in gmatch and gsub functions) and can't afford to split my string.



Le 29/05/2015 21:22, Dirk Laurie a écrit :
> I usually do it with gsub. Not my own idea, I saw it in
> some code of Roberto's.
>
> t = {}
> data:gsub(pattern,
>     function(captures)
>        t[#t+1] = do_something_with_captures
>     end)
>
> In yiour example, where you want numbers and booleans
> to be translated, I would do this:
>
> item = (function ()
>     local code = load(item)
>     if code then return code() end
> end)() or item
>
> If "item" is valid Lua code, it is replaced by its value, otherwise
> it stays unchanged.