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Lua semantics have been increasingly influenced by Scheme over time, [6] especially with the introduction of anonymous functions and full lexical scoping. Several features were added in new Lua versions. Versions of Lua prior to version 5.0 were released under a license similar to the BSD license.
Lua patterns are not even a subset of regular expressions, as there are also discrepancies, like Lua using the escape character % instead of \,, and additions, like Lua providing -as a non-greedy version of *. Here is a list of some of the things that Lua patterns lack compared to regular expressions:
Running your code through an IDE is helpful for its text highlighting features, which can help you quickly spot syntax errors. Any IDE with the ability to install a Lua text highlighting plugin should work. This could be as simple as Notepad++ (with Lua selected from the language menu) or as full-featured as Visual Studio Code.
Help:Lua for beginners; Help:Lua debugging – about debugging Lua modules; Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency; Module:Sandbox provides a pseudo-namespace for experimenting with Lua modules
Scribunto Lua reference manual; Programming in Lua; Introduction to Lua patterns; About regex. Lua "patterns" are based on Regex (Patterns are a reduced set of regex). Help:Lua metamodules: Lua in Wikipedia has several meta-modules available that can make core functions easily available.
Vim has Lua scripting support starting with version 7.3. [34] VLC media player uses Lua to provide scripting support. Warframe uses Lua for HUD purposes and several other UI operations; Waze uses Lua internally. waze-4-35-0-15.apk includes Lua 5.3.3. WeeChat IRC client allows scripts to be written in Lua.
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