From: Lars Christensen <larschbelunktumdk@...>
Date: 2009-07-03T19:02:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing lua with Ruby

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Catalin Tilimpea<ctilimpea@gmail.com> wrote:
> Im interested in parsing a text file that has a very specific, yet
> somewhat complicated (for me) format. Sample attached. Looks something
> like this:
>
> BeanCounterDB = {
>  ["settings"] = {
>    ["profile.Default"] = {
>      ["columnsortcurSort"] = 12,
>      ["util.beancounter.mailrecolor"] = "both",
>      ["columnsortcurDir"] = -1,
>      ["configator.left"] = 282.666712026266,
>      ["configator.top"] = 651.6666718914553,
>    },

I wrote this little Treetop based parser for a very small subset of
Lua some time ago. It might help:

http://gist.github.com/140038