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On Sep 17, 2015 11:48 PM, "William Ahern" <william@25thandclement.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I'm not sure if it is linked from lua.org, but in any case LabLua's site (where I work) includes our list of publications and is at http://www.lua.inf.puc-rio.br

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/