Projects

LPeg

LPeg is a new pattern-matching library for Lua, based on Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs). In this text, I assume you are familiar with PEGs. If you are not, you can get a quick start reading the Wikipedia Entry for PEGs. The nice thing about PEGs is that it has a formal basis (instead of being an ... [More] ad-hoc set of features), allows an efficient and simple implementation, and does most things we expect from a pattern-matching library (and more, as we can define entire grammars). [Less]

LuaJSON

JSON Parser/Constructor for Lua Uses LPeg to decode JSON and tables to encode JSON

luapod

Translates a document in a Plain Old Documentation style using Lua and the lpeg library. The current implementation translates into HTML.

LXSH

Lexing & Syntax Highlighting in Lua LXSH is a collection of lexers and syntax highlighters written in Lua using the excellent pattern-matching library LPeg. Several syntaxes are currently supported: Lua, C, BibTeX and shell script. The syntax highlighters support three output formats: HTML ... [More] designed to be easily embedded in web pages, LaTeX which can be used to generate high quality PDF files and RTF which can be used in graphical text editors like Microsoft Word and LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffice). Three predefined color schemes are included. [Less]