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				@PrivateGER
 Sorry, skipped the pretty visible mention of the "transpiler" somehow.
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				Trying to read this it sounds more like a regex parser than anything else. Might that be so?
 
 Looks beautiful though <3
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				@ScriptCoded Basically, this gets used in a lexer to break up source code and process it.
 With this and some other code, all fragments of code get an identifier, which lets the actual transpiler process it.
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Behold the monstrosity regex my transpiler produces!
/val|var|[1-9]{1,32}|\+|\-|\*|s\/s|>>|=|;|(["'])(?:(?=(\\?))\2.)*?\1|print\(|log\(|sqrt\(|input\(|strToArray\(|httpGet\(|if\(|else|{|}|s==s|s>=s|s<=s|s>s|s<s|s&&s|\|\||!|;|\(|\)|\[|\]| |\w+/gi
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why is regex like this
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