why not use more functionality already provided by the posix standard libc ?

[Jim <djvaios@...>]

On 5/10/19, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> There are at least three modules providing regex in Lua available via
> LuaRocks: Lrexlib-POSIX, Lrexlib-PCRE (most popular) and Lrexlib-PCRE2.
> There's also at least two POSIX modules: lposix and luaposix (most popular).
> There *is* a solution, it's just not a built-in one.

see ? this is exactly the problem, Sir.
everybody reinvents the wheel again and again instead of combining
efforts and put a decent solution into the Lua std lib for FREE,
i. e. add such functionality to the "os" table where it in fact belongs.