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C extension for fast string methods

$ luarocks install stringy

Includes fast methods for endswith, startswith, split, strip, find
and count. Implementations of split and strip from the wiki and book.
Implementation of find and count use python's fastsearch.
Usage is:

> stringy = require "stringy"
> = stringy.strip(" asdf ")
asdf

> = table.concat(stringy.split("aXbXc", "X"), "|")
a|b|c

> = stringy.startswith("asdf", "as")
true
> = stringy.endswith("asdf", "as")
false

Versions

0.7-06 years ago106,050 downloads
0.6-17 years ago7,979 downloads
0.4-17 years ago61,667 downloads
0.4-07 years ago115 downloads
0.2-17 years ago37,080 downloads

Dependencies

lua >= 5.1

Dependency for

cipher-log, kong, kong-plugin-json-threat-protection, kong-plugin-route-by-jsonrpc-method, lua-multipart-parser, luabundler, multipart

Manifests