Taco Hoekwater <[email protected]> writes: > 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 _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
