...and if you decided to use Lua, you could also use LPEG, which is amazingly well suited to tasks like this... [LPEG is also a dependency of course, but prett

...and if you decided to use Lua, you could also use LPEG, which is amazingly well suited to tasks like this... [LPEG is also a dependency of course, but pretty small (just include its source code along with your own) and super portable in the same way Lua is.]