On 5/14/12, William Adams <william_a_adams@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I would love to have the lua string.match function available for straight > buffers as well. Most of this > network programming stuff could benefit from what's available in Lua string > library, as well as > LPEG, only operating on straight buffers, rather than Lua strings. What about something like Erlang bit syntax? http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/erlang/euc/00/bit_syntax.html http://code.google.com/p/lua-bitstring/ Just a thought.