Implement extended string pattern matching

[XZzYassin]

Implement extended string pattern matching

• '"hello world ":who' : should be valid and fits anything after "hello world " into the variable $who

[krtek4]

It would be great to be able to do something like that. Don't know if I will have the time to do it quickly however.

[XZzYassin]

@krtek4 if you have any ideas on how to implement it, maybe I can do it 👍

[krtek4]

This seems difficult because it means we need to somehow manage compound patterns, but they really make sense only if the value is a string. Or eventually a number : 123a56 applied to 123456 would mean that a contains 4.

I am not sure it can be done without first rewriting to whole parser to be something else that just simple regexp.

We already have issues with the current regexps (for example #6 ), adding a regexp for compound patterns will only make matter worse.