One of the lesser known parts of Lua is that it has its own pattern matching language! https://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html https://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html It

One of the lesser known parts of Lua is that it has its own pattern matching language! https://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html https://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html It is not as powerful as regexp, but it's a huge step up for string munging over raw find/substr.