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LICENSE

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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2020 theFox6
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

README.md

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+# venus lua parser
+A parser that loads venus files into lua. Written in lua.  
+The parser reads the lua file replaces venus syntax by lua syntax and loads the result.
+
+## features
+### foreach
+The `foreach` statement will geneate a `pairs` statement.
+
+```lua
+local table = {2,1,3,"test"}
+
+foreach el in table do
+  print(el)
+end
+```
+will generate
+```lua
+local table = {2,1,3,"test"}
+
+for _, el in table do
+  print(el)
+end
+```
+
+### comments
+for comments --, // and ## can be used
+if something follows a -- it will always be treated as comment
+
+##todo
+- curly braces
+- increment, decrement, etc.
+- fn and lambdas
+- eventually be able to produce lua files
+
+## working with the parser
+### loading
+The init.lua returns a table containing the parser.  
+In case you have the VenusParser directory within your project's  
+ways of loding it may be:
+```lua
+-- using require (cached)
+local vc = require("VenusParser")
+-- using dofile
+local vc = dofile("VenusParser/init.lua")
+```
+
+### running venus files
+`vc.dovenus(file)` works like `dofile(file)`  
+It's argument can be a relative or absolute path to the file that should be run.
+
+### loading venus files
+`vc.loadvenus(file)` works like `loadfile(file)`  
+It's argument can be a relative or absolute path to the file that should be loaded.  
+It returns a function that runs the generated lua.

init.lua

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ local function parse_element(el,pc)
   end
   if el == "foreach" then
     pc.foreach = 1
-    return "for"
+    return "for _,"
   elseif el == "for" then
     pc.foreach = 0
   elseif el == "in" then
@@ -100,13 +100,17 @@ local function parse_line(l,pc)
   return pl
 end
 
-function parser.loadvenus(file)
+function parser.loadvenus(file,env)
   local fc = ""
   local pc = {instring == false, opencurly = {}}
   for l in io.lines(file) do
     fc = fc .. parse_line(l,pc) .. "\n"
   end
-  return loadstring(fc,"@"..file)
+  if env then
+    return loadstring(fc,"@"..file,"t",env)
+  else
+    return loadstring(fc,"@"..file)
+  end
 end
 
 function parser.dovenus(file)
@@ -117,6 +121,7 @@ function parser.dovenus(file)
   return ff()
 end
 
+-- in case anybody wants to use it too
 parser.optmatch = optmatch
 
 return parser

runTest.lua

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-local p = dofile("init.lua")
+local vp = dofile("init.lua")
 
-p.dovenus("test.venus")
+vp.dovenus("test.venus")

test.venus

@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ for i = 0,5 do
 	print(i)
 end
 
-for _,el in pairs(testt) do
-	print(el)
+for i,el in pairs(testt) do
+	print(i.." = "..el)
 end
 
-foreach i,el in testt do
-	print(i.." = "..el)
+foreach el in testt do
+	print(el)
 end
 
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