Are there Regular Expression libraries?
Naturally! But see if you really cannot do the task with Lua’s built-in string patterns. Although simpler than traditional regular expressions, they are powerful enough for most tasks. In most cases, you can understand a Lua string pattern by mentally replacing ‘%’ with ‘\’; the advantage of % of course is that it does not itself need escaping in C-style strings such as Lua uses.
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