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* LuaFish - parsing Lua sources, manipulating abstract syntax trees, and serializing ASTs back to Lua code

This directory accumulates various Lua programming pages according to their intended domain or task.

Data Description and Configuration

LuaDataFormats - using Lua as a data representation language

String Manipulation and Text Processing

General
- FiltersSourcesAndSinks - discusses chaining of filters, which are functions that accept successive chunks of input, and produce successive chunks of output
- GenericInputAlgorithms - functional, AWK-style text processing in Lua
- StringRecipes - solutions to various common string manipulation needs (sample code)
- SplitJoin - Perl-like string split/join (functions)
- EnhancedFileLines - functions for portably handling '\r\n' chars (functions)
- CommonFunctions - string and pattern utility functions (modules)
- LuaRopes - implementing ropes in Lua (function)
Unicode
- LuaUnicode - how to use Unicode in Lua
- ValidateUnicodeString - handle UTF-8 strings with new string.* methods (module)
Pattern Matching
- StringQuery - a string pattern matching and replacement library (module)
- LuaPeg - a new pattern-matching library based on parsing expression grammars
  - LpegRecipes - examples of using LPeg for parsing (sample code)
Macros and Templates / Parsing, Preprocessing, and Metaprogramming
- VarExpand - bash-style inline variable and code expansion (function)
- TextTemplate - macro processor (module)
- LuaBalanced - match delimited snippets of Lua code in a string (module)
- SourcePreprocessing - tricks to preprocess source code (sample code)
- SimpleLuaPreprocessor - macro processor (function)
- SlightlyLessSimpleLuaPreprocessor - macro processor (sample code)
- LuaGrammar - Lua grammar, lexers, and parsers
- LuaTokenParsing - altering Lua by fiddling with the token stream (lhf's tokenf patch)
  - LuaMacros - a macro facility for Lua using token filters (module, sample code)
- RuntimeSyntax - the run-time simulation of what resembles syntax extensions (module)
- MetaLua - alternative Lua compiler with compile-time metaprogramming and syntax extensions
  - MetaLuaRecipes - examples of syntax extensions implemented with Metalua (sample code)
- LuaFish - parsing Lua sources, manipulating abstract syntax trees, and serializing ASTs back to Lua code
- CppMetaprogramming - C++ metaprogramming using Lua (design pattern, module)
XML
- LuaXml - handling XML in Lua (functions, modules)
  - LazyKit - a set of tools for processing XML in Lua (documentation, sample code)
- LuaProjectListToXml - read list of Lua projects from Lua website and output as XML (sample code)

HTML and Web

OutputLuaTableToHtmlFile - converts a Lua table into an HTML file (function)
LuaToHtml - convert (htmlize) Lua source to HTML (sample code)
GettingTheTitleFromHtmlFiles - parse title tag from HTML files (sample code)
DisplayCalendarInHtml - creates calendar in HTML (function)
CgiUtils - ? (functions)

Encoding and Compression

BaseSixtyFour - Base64 encode/decode (functions)
ModuleCompressDeflateLua - implementation of DEFLATE (gzip/zlib), decompress only (module)

Graphics

LuaGraphics - contains links to free graphical Lua software, notably 2D/3D engines
GdThumbnail - thumbnailer using lua-gd, e.g. for web galleries or similar (sample code)
PortableNetworkGraphicsParser - partial PNG graphics file parser (sample code)

Mathematics

PointAndComplex - simple operations on points (2D vectors) and complex numbers (sample code)
ComplexNumbers - handling complex numbers with pure Lua (module)
LuaMatrix - handling matrices with pure Lua (module)
HammingNumbers - enumerate hamming numbers (function)
HammingNumbersVariant - enumerate hamming numbers, with lazy list (function)
SimpleFit - curve fitting (module)
SimpleStats - some simple statistics routes for tables (module)
ListComprehensions - set-builder notation implementations

Device I/O

SerialCommunication - RS-232 serial communication (modules, sample code)