Taco Hoekwater
David Kastrup wrote:
Hi,
I am pondering using \pdfmatch for some application that might eventually be migrated to LuaTeX. My scraps of half-knowledge right of the top of my head indicate that LPEG is compiled into LuaTeX,
This is 100% true.
and that LPEG contains a module that is able to parse regular expression syntax into LPEG.
A specific form of regular expression syntax, yes.
http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/re.html
But I do not know whether that matches up with libc's regex routines.
Uh, no. That's not really anything close to standard syntax. Looks more like a convenience interface than trying to track existing usage. But standard syntax can probably be translated into that syntax reasonably well using regular expressions... Thanks for the pointer, -- David Kastrup