Re: Lpeg for one who is regexp-poisoned...

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> is it correct to think of the LPeg way of matching like using regexp
> always with /^......$/ (where ...... is the regexp itsself)? 

Only the '^'. A pattern in LPeg matches a prefix of the subject; it
does not need to get the whole subject.

-- Roberto