Re: [ANN] Pegex: regex engine using LPeg

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:19:01PM +0100, Chris Emerson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've uploaded (newly renamed) pegex to Luarocks.
> 
> It's a simple regex engine which works by converting regexes to equivalent
> LPeg expressions (using the algorithm in this paper co-authored by a Roberto
> Ierusalimschy: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/ry10-01.pdf -
> thanks!); the only dependency is LPeg.
> 
> It supports basic regular expression features as well as some common
> extensions like captures and backreferences.

Nice work. And thanks for providing the URL to the paper. I didn't know
about it.