Re: Patterns: Why are anchors not character classes?

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would argue that the string library ought to have a proper split function,
> but it's not too difficult to write one in Lua. I'll leave it as an exercise
> for the reader, and I think there's a whole page on the wiki about it also.

Related: https://bitbucket.org/telemachus/string-split. And, yes, the wiki was
very helpful. (I should be releasing this to luarocks in the next week.)

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