Penlight Lua Libraries 1.5.4
The documentation is available here.
Libraries
pl
Entry point for loading all PL libraries only on demand, into the global space.
pl.Set
A Set class.
pl.app
Application support functions.
pl.array2d
Operations on two-dimensional arrays.
pl.class
Provides a reuseable and convenient framework for creating classes in Lua.
pl.compat
Lua 5.1/5.2/5.3 compatibility.
pl.comprehension
List comprehensions implemented in Lua.
pl.config
Reads configuration files into a Lua table.
pl.data
Reading and querying simple tabular data.
pl.dir
Listing files in directories and creating/removing directory paths.
pl.file
File manipulation functions: reading, writing, moving and copying.
pl.func
Functional helpers like composition, binding and placeholder expressions.
pl.import_into
PL loader, for loading all PL libraries, only on demand.
pl.input
Iterators for extracting words or numbers from an input source.
pl.lapp
Simple command-line parsing using human-readable specification.
pl.lexer
Lexical scanner for creating a sequence of tokens from text.
pl.luabalanced
Extract delimited Lua sequences from strings.
pl.operator
Lua operators available as functions.
pl.path
Path manipulation and file queries.
pl.permute
Permutation operations.
pl.pretty
Pretty-printing Lua tables.
pl.seq
Manipulating iterators as sequences.
pl.sip
Simple Input Patterns (SIP).
pl.strict
Checks uses of undeclared global variables.
pl.stringio
Reading and writing strings using file-like objects.
pl.stringx
Python-style extended string library.
pl.tablex
Extended operations on Lua tables.
pl.template
A template preprocessor.
pl.test
Useful test utilities.
pl.text
Text processing utilities.
pl.types
Dealing with Detailed Type Information
pl.url
Python-style URL quoting library.
pl.utils
Generally useful routines.
pl.xml
XML LOM Utilities.
Classes
pl.Date
Date and Date Format classes.
pl.List
Python-style list class.
pl.Map
A Map class.
pl.MultiMap
MultiMap, a Map which has multiple values per key.
pl.OrderedMap
OrderedMap, a map which preserves ordering.