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- Subject: builtin pattern matching
- From: Jim <djvaios@...>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 10:15:16 +0200
On 5/11/19, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Lua solution is two-pronged:
> (a) for everyday use, the string matching library is concise and easy;
not quite, it lacks an OR ''|" operator.
> (b) for complex parsing-type applications, load LPEG.
> Besides being a Lua-ish extension, it is more powerful than regex.
should be builtin then IMO.
build in LPEG, build out regex. ;-)
