Re: quoting unquoted token?
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- Subject: Re: quoting unquoted token?
- From: Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 23:05:21 +0200
On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Peter Odding wrote:
> You can do this in plain Lua but it's not nice, I would prefer LPeg:
Thank you very much for the example. And yes, LPeg is on my "to learn" list :)
Here is my feeble attempt in plain Lua:
local aLine = 'foo "hello world" bar'
print( 1, aLine )
aLine = aLine:gsub( '(%b"")', function( aValue ) return aValue:gsub( ' ', '\032円' ) end )
aLine = aLine:gsub( '([^ ]+)', function( aValue ) if not aValue:find( '^"' ) then return ( '"%s"' ):format( aValue ) else return aValue:gsub( '\032円', ' ' ) end end )
print( 2, aLine )
for aToken in aLine:gmatch( '(%b"")' ) do
print( 3, aToken )
end
> 1 foo "hello world" bar
> 2 "foo" "hello world" "bar"
> 3 "foo"
> 3 "hello world"
> 3 "bar"
In other words, first, encode all the quoted space - assuming the space character is the token separator. Second, quote all the sequences between spaces, if not already quoted.
Rather clunky, but it seems to be doing the bare minimum.
> One notable advantage of LPeg is that it's dead easy to extend this example with support for escape sequences and stuff like that :-)
Yes, LPeg looks very powerful. Need to invest some time in it :))