Penlight Lua Libraries 1.5.4

The documentation is available here.

Libraries

pl Entry point for loading all PL libraries only on demand, into the global space.
pl.Set A Set class.
pl.app Application support functions.
pl.array2d Operations on two-dimensional arrays.
pl.class Provides a reuseable and convenient framework for creating classes in Lua.
pl.compat Lua 5.1/5.2/5.3 compatibility.
pl.comprehension List comprehensions implemented in Lua.
pl.config Reads configuration files into a Lua table.
pl.data Reading and querying simple tabular data.
pl.dir Listing files in directories and creating/removing directory paths.
pl.file File manipulation functions: reading, writing, moving and copying.
pl.func Functional helpers like composition, binding and placeholder expressions.
pl.import_into PL loader, for loading all PL libraries, only on demand.
pl.input Iterators for extracting words or numbers from an input source.
pl.lapp Simple command-line parsing using human-readable specification.
pl.lexer Lexical scanner for creating a sequence of tokens from text.
pl.luabalanced Extract delimited Lua sequences from strings.
pl.operator Lua operators available as functions.
pl.path Path manipulation and file queries.
pl.permute Permutation operations.
pl.pretty Pretty-printing Lua tables.
pl.seq Manipulating iterators as sequences.
pl.sip Simple Input Patterns (SIP).
pl.strict Checks uses of undeclared global variables.
pl.stringio Reading and writing strings using file-like objects.
pl.stringx Python-style extended string library.
pl.tablex Extended operations on Lua tables.
pl.template A template preprocessor.
pl.test Useful test utilities.
pl.text Text processing utilities.
pl.types Dealing with Detailed Type Information
pl.url Python-style URL quoting library.
pl.utils Generally useful routines.
pl.xml XML LOM Utilities.

Classes

pl.Date Date and Date Format classes.
pl.List Python-style list class.
pl.Map A Map class.
pl.MultiMap MultiMap, a Map which has multiple values per key.
pl.OrderedMap OrderedMap, a map which preserves ordering.

Manual

01-introduction.md
02-arrays.md
03-strings.md
04-paths.md
05-dates.md
06-data.md
07-functional.md
08-additional.md
09-discussion.md

Examples

seesubst.lua
sipscan.lua
symbols.lua
test-cmp.lua
test-data.lua
test-listcallbacks.lua
test-pretty.lua
test-symbols.lua
testapp.lua
testclone.lua
testconfig.lua
testglobal.lua
testinputfields.lua
testinputfields2.lua
testxml.lua
which.lua
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