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# Module `pl.luabalanced`

Extract delimited Lua sequences from strings.

Inspired by Damian Conway's Text::Balanced in Perl.

- [1] Lua Wiki Page
- [2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Balanced/lib/Text/Balanced.pm

     local lb = require "pl.luabalanced"
     --Extract Lua expression starting at position 4.
      print(lb.match_expression("if x^2 + x > 5 then print(x) end", 4))
      --> x^2 + x > 5     16
     --Extract Lua string starting at (default) position 1.
     print(lb.match_string([["test\"123" .. "more"]]))
     --> "test\"123"     12

(c) 2008, David Manura, Licensed under the same terms as Lua (MIT license).
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