parsing - Easiest way to parse a Lua datastructure in C# / .Net

Question

Anyone know of an easy way to parse a Lua datastructure in C# or with any .Net library? This would be similar to JSON decoding, except for Lua instead of javascript.

At this point it looks like I'll need to write my own, but hoping there's something already out there.

Answer 1

Thanks to both of you, I found what I was looking for using LuaInterface

Here's a datastructure in Lua I wanted to read ("c:sample.lua"):

TestValues = {
    NumbericOneMillionth = 1e-006,
    NumbericOnehalf = 0.5,
    NumbericOne = 1,
    AString = "a string"
}

Here's some sample code reading that Lua datastructure using LuaInterface:

Lua lua = new Lua();

var result = lua.DoFile("C:\sample.lua");

foreach (DictionaryEntry member in lua.GetTable("TestValues")) {
    Console.WriteLine("({0}) {1} = {2}", 
        member.Value.GetType().ToString(), 
        member.Key, 
        member.Value);
}

And here's what that sample code writes to the console:

(System.String) AString = a string
(System.Double) NumbericOneMillionth = 1E-06
(System.Double) NumbericOnehalf = 0.5
(System.Double) NumbericOne = 1

To figure out how to use the library I opened up the LuaInterface.dll in Reflector and google'd the member functions.