Lexer for Lua source code. This module returns a lexer function which takes one argument (the text string to lex).

It returns a array containing every line of the lexed text. Each line is an array of tokens in the order they were found.

{
  type = string, -- one of the lexer's token types
  data = string, -- token source code (lexeme)
  posFirst = number, -- start caret position in line
  posLast = number -- end caret position in line
}

To see a full list of token types, see the original readme.

This module is only intended for use in developer-oriented modules where source code parsing is useful.

See also

• Original module on Github