-- $Id: regexmatch.lua,v 1.4 2000/12/09 20:07:45 doug Exp $
-- http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
-- contributed by Roberto Ierusalimschy
local text = io.read("*a")
-- make sure text does not start with a number
text = "\n" .. text
-- pattern is: not a digit, optional (, 3 digits, optional ),
-- space, 3 digits, space or hyphen, 4 digits, not a digit
local pattern = "%D(%(?)(%d%d%d)(%)?) (%d%d%d)[- ](%d%d%d%d)%f[%D]"
local N = tonumber((arg and arg[1])) or 1
local count = 0
for i=N,1,-1 do
for open,area,close,exch,digits in string.gfind(text, pattern) do
if (open == '(') == (close == ')') then
local tel = "("..area..") "..exch.."-"..digits
if i == 1 then
count = count+1
io.write(count, ": ", tel, "\n")
end
end
end
end