Lua Peg

wiki

Web site: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/

Description

A nice introduction to PEGs in Lua, [Around PEGs], was written by GavinWraith.

Building LPeg on Windows

cl /c /nologo /DWIN32 /DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN lpeg.c

link /dll /out:lpeg.dll lpeg.obj /nodefaultlib:libc /export:luaopen_lpeg msvcrt.lib lua5.1.lib

Author

RobertoIerusalimschy

Projects that use LPeg

• [LuaPOD] - POD-to-HTML translator.
• [Luma] - LPeg-based Lua macros.
• [Leg] - Lua 5.1 grammar and API for manipulation.
• [Shake] - simple test engine (see UnitTesting).
• LuaFish (partly like Leg)
• [LXSH] - Lexing & Syntax Highlighting in Lua.

Forks/Reimplementations

• [LPegK] - Yieldable LPeg. LuaList:2012-02/msg00018.html
• [ppeg] - Python port of the Lua LPeg library.

Papers

• [1] Ierusalimschy, R. (2009), "A text pattern-matching tool based on parsing expression grammars", Software: Practice & Experience 39 #3: 221–258.
• [2] Medeiros, S.; Ierusalimschy, R. (2008), "A parsing machine for PEGs", Proc. of the 2008 symposium on Dynamic languages, art. #2.

See also

• LpegRecipes - examples of using LPeg for parsing