Regular Expressions

[tempandrew]

Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

I imagine people would want both a

string.match(pattern) -> boolean

and a

string.replace(pattern, replacement_string) -> string

Where the replacement_string could include back-references (like $1 or $2) if pattern includes capturing parenthesis.


I still think this is a bad idea though.

This should be implemented ASAP. I can think of a lot of situations where a replace command would be great.