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
• Usage
• Lua functions

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.