From: "Tomáš Hála" <mendelu@thala.cz>
To: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: regular expression as lua pattern
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 18:25:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240528162551.GA31358@thala.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fbdac43-77ed-4b91-ab2b-aba97bcb01a1@gmx.es>
Hi Pablo,
unfortunately, that it is not possible:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial, section Limitations.
The best,
Tomáš
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 06:12:51PM +0200, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have the following sample:
>
> \starttext
> \startTEXpage[pagestate=start, offset=1em]
> \startluacode
> local str = "this is that"
> context(str:match("(this|these)"))
> \stopluacode
> \stopTEXpage
> \stoptext
>
> In short, I would like to know whether it is possible to have the
> regular expression (this|these) as a Lua pattern.
>
> I mean, I need complete strings and I haven’t found the way to do it.
>
> Many thanks for your help,
>
> Pablo
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-28 16:12 [NTG-context] " Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2024-05-28 16:25 ` Tomáš Hála [this message]
2024-05-28 16:40 ` [NTG-context] " Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2024-05-28 18:06 ` Hans Hagen
2024-05-29 11:00 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2024-05-29 15:16 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2024-05-29 15:14 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
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