Parsing complex structured text data?
If there is already a specialized parser for your particular data, use that – that is, don’t create another XML parser! For the special case of Windows .INI files and Unix configuration files, consider the Penlight pl.config module. Lua is strong at text processing – you can use the built-in string patterns, PCRE regular expressions, or Lpeg. Sometimes a lexical scanner gives a cleaner solution than pattern matching. This works particularly well if your ‘complex structured text’ is Lua or C code.
If there is already a specialised parser for your particular data, use that – that is, don’t create another XML parser! For the special case of Windows .INI files and Unix configuration files, consider the Penlight pl.config module. Lua is strong at text processing – you can use the built-in string patterns, PCRE regular expressions, or Lpeg. Sometimes a lexical scanner gives a cleaner solution than pattern matching. This works particularly well if your ‘complex structured text’ is Lua or C code.
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