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add tests for above functions

parser: implement streaming scanner

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, only an in-memory scanner is available, which loads all content into memory and then parses.

Describe the solution you'd like
A scanner that reads fixed size chunks and creates tokens from these chunks (basically, a buffered scanner).

Additional context
Everything is pretty trivial, until it comes to the n-lookahead (or check, as it's called in this codebase).
If the string that should be checked would cross chunk borders, a new chunk would have to be loaded, and then maybe unloaded, if the check was unsuccessful. This means, that everything has to be done manually in this method, consume, lookahead etc. Everything has to use custom offsets, relative to the current buffer, then switch to an offset relative to the next buffer etc.

implement for block

rawget

ipairs

rawset

implement repeat block

select

parser: create a lua parser

Create a very basic parser for Lua.

Strings should be kept especially simple in the beginning, i.e. either be enclosed in ' or ". No escapes and no multiline is needed in the beginning.