Lua - Pattern matching

Lua module U108

Pattern matching

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module U108. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Lua, Lua Programming

Lua Programming - training course - Learning to program in Lua and make good use of the language

Lua Programming - Learning to program in Lua and make good use of the language Our public "Lua Programming" course takes you from the basics of the language ...

http://www.wellho.net/course/ubfull.html [course]

Learning to program in Lua - training course - Learning to program in Lua and make good use of the language

Learning to program in Lua - Learning to program in Lua and make good use of the language "Learning to program in Lua" takes you from the basics of computer ...

http://www.wellho.net/course/ulfull.html [course]

Lua examples, Lua Courses

Programming training is much more effective if the delegates are shown how a particular program is written, rather than just the final result ... show ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1744_Lua ... urses.html [short article]

Lua - IAQ (Infrequently Answered Questions)

Here are a handful of "one line" answers from the end of the Lua Course I was running at the end of last week • Command line parameters in Lua are ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1847_Lua ... ions-.html [short article]

split or explode in Lua

--[[ There is no built-in function to split a string into a table of substrings - so here is an example of how you can do it ]] function string:split(delimiter) ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u108/split [code sample]

Pattern matching in Lua (not Regular Expressions)

--[[ Lua does NOT support regular expressions - or so they say in the documentation. But the string patterns that it matches are pretty darned close ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u108/iiapc [code sample]

Pattern substitute, pattern match and extract

--[[ Removing punctation and getting a stream of names from a table ]] lineofdata = "Neil, Siobhan ... Robin & Tom" -- Replace each non-Alpha with ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=u108/dls [code sample]

This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Lua, Lua Programming

Examples from our training material

dls	Pattern substitute, pattern match and extract
iiapc	Pattern matching in Lua (not Regular Expressions)
patplode	iterating through a string, choosing a pattern
pcis	Pattern match and extract - a postcode
split	split or explode in Lua
stratch	String Pattern Matching

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

Anchors, literal characters, counts and groups.
Capturing matchs, capturing all the matches (global)
Pattern Based functions.

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