I'm trying to match a string that contains Lua code.
a = [[workspace.Object["Child"]:remove()]]
to do this, I'm trying to create an option where either .x
or ['x']
would be matched regardless of what order they are in or how many of them there are.
A couple problems I have run into:
- How do I match more than one combined character/pattern between brackets?
[abc]
matches a
or b
or c
, but not abc
.
- How do I add a modifier to
%b[]
? ex. %b[]+
to match ['x']['x']['x']
- If I could match something like
%[.-%] *
, that would work the same.
Lua does not fully support regexps.
But you can do your task step-by-step, using intermediate strings.
local str0 = [[workspace.Object["Child"]['xx'][5].xxx:remove()]]
local str = str0
:gsub('%b[]',
function(s)
return s:gsub('^%[%s*([\'"]?)(.*)%1%s*%]$','{%2}')
end
)
:gsub('[%.:]%s*([%w_]+)','{%1}')
print(str0)
print(str)
print()
for w in str:gmatch'{(.-)}' do
print(w)
end
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-- output
---------------------------
workspace.Object["Child"]['xx'][5].xxx:remove()
workspace{Object}{Child}{xx}{5}{xxx}{remove}()
Object
Child
xx
5
xxx
remove
EDIT :
local str0 = [[workspace.Object["Child"]['xx'][5][ [=[xxx]=] ]:remove()]]
local str = str0
:gsub('%b[]',
function(s)
return s:gsub('^%[%s*([\'"]?).*%1%s*%]$','{%0}')
end
)
:gsub('%.%s*[%w_]+','{%0}')
:gsub(':%s*[%w_]+%s*([\'"]).-%1','{%0}')
:gsub(':%s*[%w_]+%s*%b()','{%0}')
:gsub('{(:%s*remove%s*%(%s*%))}','%1')
:gsub('}%s*{', '')
:gsub('([%w_]+)%s*(%b{})%s*:%s*remove%s*%(%s*%)',
function(s1, s2)
return 'removefilter('..s1..s2:match'^{(.*)}$'..')'
end
)
:gsub('([%w_]+)%s*:%s*remove%s*%(%s*%)','removefilter(%1)')
:gsub('[{}]', '')
print(str0)
print(str)
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-- output
---------------------------
workspace.Object["Child"]['xx'][5][ [=[xxx]=] ]:remove()
removefilter(workspace.Object["Child"]['xx'][5][ [=[xxx]=] ])