Lua Peg

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[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.

* [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.

LPeg is a pattern-matching library based on parsing expression grammars ([PEG]).

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.