Re: Lpeg Integration

[devin bjelland <devinbjelland () gmail com>]

The Lpeg branch has been merged into the trunk.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:28 AM, devin bjelland <devinbjelland () gmail com>
wrote:

> Hi list,
> This last week, I have been working on integrating the Lpeg library for
> use in the
> NSE. Lpeg stands for Lua parsing expression grammars. Expressions grammars
>
> are more expressive than regular expressions and will also to simplify
> many parsing
> related tasks (like writing a XML and HTML parsing library). See these
> examples
> of what Lpeg can do [1].
>   There has been a fair bit of discussion about incorporating lpeg into
> nmap
> the past.[2] There was some concern about the number of source files, but
> amalgamating them into a single file remedies that. I successfully
> amalgamated
> the lpeg source into a single file and compiled it into Nmap. You can get
> my code with:
>
> $svn co https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-exp/devin/lpeg-integration
>
>
> I incorporated two patches that Patrick had written a while back which use
> Lpeg to simplify the code for Json parsing and script selection.
>
> Cheers,
> Devin Bjelland
>
> [1]http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/#ex
> [2]https://www.google.com/search?q=lpeg+site:seclists.org
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