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> PCRE support would be big I have to say, once I learned to appreciate the combo of Lua's builtin pattern matching (no not _that_ kind of pattern matching) an
by pull_my_finger 6y ago
> PCRE support would be big
I have to say, once I learned to appreciate the combo of Lua's builtin pattern matching (no not _that_ kind of pattern matching) and LPEG, I really loathe having to use cryptic regexp's in languages like JS.
Patterns are enough for most stuff, and when you want to get into more complex patterns, a PEG (LPEG in particular) is much more readable and expressive than a regex that would come out looking like a generated password.