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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 04:08:03 JST alcinnz

   As I mentioned yesterday, Lua's `string` namespace implements a simplified regex variant. So how'd we implement it (in Lua) upon the Scanner we bootstrapped a Lua lexer upon?

   Use 2 Scanners: 1 for the "pattern" we're interpreting, & another for the "haystack" string we're testing.

   To start I'd capture all pattern-chars until "%" (amongst others) & see if it matches the corresponding substring of the haystack.

   Typically the next letter represents range(s) to test the haystack-char against.
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