Preg-match alternative in Lua

[Sandeep Ghai <sandeep.ghai92@...>]

Hello Everyone,
I just come across the 'preg-match' [1] function of PHP.
Do we have similar function in Lua as well?

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php


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