Thanks for the link! I'll take a look. I actually extremely rarely need full reg-ex support. Almost never, really. What WOULD be awesome is limited pattern sup

Thanks for the link! I'll take a look. I actually extremely rarely need full reg-ex support. Almost never, really. What WOULD be awesome is limited pattern support, at the level of Lua patterns[1], especially if they were UTF-8 character aware. [1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4.1 http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4.1 -- Lua patterns are NOT regular expressions, even though they look similar; there's no "expression" possible, just character class repeats.