Support for string matchers about reghex HOT 4 CLOSED

I did add that initially but I then discarded it to keep the size of the core library low; could be worth readding though

from reghex.

IMO the added code for generating regexes out of strings would be minimal and worth it overall, part of the appeal of RegHex, for me at least, is that the source code of parsers looks pretty clean considering that they are written in JS, the cleaner it can get the better.

Maybe something like this would work:

str => new RegExp ( str.replace ( /[\\^$.*+?()[\]{}|]/g, char => `\\${char}` ), 'y' );

from reghex.

I could potentially just revert this change here 🤔 2d73f61#diff-8ab41fe13597e1554b5d6b4c227b5f123ff2d6726a7f3688a8b8d1224fe1d4f3

from reghex.

That looks even better, it's probably faster than dealing with regexes.

from reghex.