LPeg for Defold
LPeg is a pattern-matching library by Roberto Ierusalimschy for Lua.
This extension includes source code of LPeg 1.0.2 (MIT Licence).
Installation
Add the link to the latest release zip-archive as a library dependency in the Defold project configuration.
https://github.com/astrochili/defold-lpeg/archive/master.zip
Usage
All operations are accessible through the global variable lpeg.
local P = lpeg.P
local pattern = P'a' * P'b' ^ 0
local result = lpeg.match(pattern, 'abbc')
print(result) --> 4
Examples
This library is used by Narrator to parse the Ink language. You can check how its parser works here.
Also you can check this tutorial.