Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> (Caveat: I do not really know lua regex, and have not tried out the
> code)
they are not regexp but expressions -)
> Assuming lua follows standard regex syntax, this means
>
> & # The letter &
> ( # start a group
> .. # any character
> - # As few as needed
> ) # end group
> ; # the letter ;
>
> so this will match all entities.
just &(.-); with () being the capture
> If it helps, the equivalent vim regex will be
> \&\(.\{-}\);
>
> I guess that $1 (the first group, that is everything that matches .-)
%1
> will be compared with mojcaentities table and replaced accordingly.
indeed
> This looks like a really nice feature of lua. In Ruby and Vim, I often
> find myself writing a bunch of similar regex, and always wished there
> was something like what lua does.
the nice thing about many lua feature is that less code (lua c code)
behaves more powerful
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