Re: Can LPeg do basic arithmetic?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> As you may or may not know by now, regex can do basic arithmetic, with 
> unary integers.[1] Can LPeg do better, say with binary integers, or 
> binary floats, or even full-blown decimal?

  Yup.  You can do the regex approach with a substitution capture
(lpeg.Cs()) or even a full blown calculator (there's an example on the LPeg
web page).

  -spc (For more fun, write an LPeg expression that can run compiled Lua
	code ... )