/gluare

A regular expression library for the GopherLua

Primary LanguageGo

gluare: Regular expressions for the GopherLua


gluare is a regular expression library for the GopherLua . gluare has almost the same API as Lua pattern match.

Contents

Installation

go get github.com/yuin/gluare

Usage

import (
    "github.com/yuin/gopher-lua"
    "github.com/yuin/gluare"
)

L := lua.NewState()
defer L.Close()
L.PreloadModule("re", gluare.Loader)

Lua functions

re.find , re.gsub, re.match, re.gmatch are available. These functions have the same API as Lua pattern match. gluare uses the Go regexp package, so you can use regular expressions that are supported in the Go regexp package.

In addition, the following functions are defined:

gluare.quote(s string) -> string

Arguments:

s string a string value to escape meta characters

Returns:

string escaped string

gluare.quote returns a string that quotes all regular expression metacharacters inside the given text.