Yes, the official Lua implementation is written in a very widely supported subset of C, so is probably one of the most portable languages along with C. Lua migh

Yes, the official Lua implementation is written in a very widely supported subset of C, so is probably one of the most portable languages along with C. Lua might well be a bit more concise for a task like this string processing, but in such as case it's just syntactic sugar really. The C is uncomplicated and efficient.