optimize patok patternsv1.1.0

a lua pattern starting with ^ selects the first index
(rather than the true string start)

we can thus make the patterns fail for failed matches much faster
by manually prepending a '^'

for larger strings, this could be a gigantic speed improvement

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/patok.lua b/patok.lua
index f192733..55cc8dc 100644
--- a/patok.lua
+++ b/patok.lua
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ local meta = {}
 function meta:__call(p)
 	if p == nil then return self.out end
 	for k, v in pairs(p) do
-		table.insert(self.out.tokens, {name=k, pattern=v})
+		table.insert(self.out.tokens, {name=k, pattern='^' .. v})
 	end
 	return self
 end