diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e2f65fa2..fc7401e2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -245,6 +245,12 @@ version = "0.4.20"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b5e6163cb8c49088c2c36f57875e58ccd8c87c7427f7fbd50ea6710b2f3f2e8f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "lua-patterns"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2f3da90ef01f4466adefe593c05d534fe270d04a2b067608cf8b230123e5a281"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
 version = "2.6.4"
@@ -286,6 +292,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "gc-arena",
  "hashbrown",
+ "lua-patterns",
  "rand",
  "rustc-hash",
  "rustyline",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 55be93ed..d8ff792e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ allocator-api2 = "0.2"
 anyhow = "1.0"
 gc-arena = { version = "0.4" , features = ["allocator-api2", "hashbrown"] }
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", features = ["raw"] }
+lua-patterns = "0.4.0"
 rand = { version = "0.8", features = ["small_rng"] }
 rustc-hash = "1.1"
 thiserror = "1.0"
diff --git a/src/stdlib/string.rs b/src/stdlib/string.rs
index 9c2fe85a..ed42dde7 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/string.rs
+++ b/src/stdlib/string.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-use crate::{AnyCallback, CallbackReturn, Context, IntoValue, Table, Value};
+use lua_patterns::LuaPattern;
+
+use crate::{AnyCallback, CallbackReturn, Context, IntoValue, String, Table, Value};
 
 pub fn load_string<'gc>(ctx: Context<'gc>) {
     let string = Table::new(&ctx);
@@ -24,5 +26,28 @@ pub fn load_string<'gc>(ctx: Context<'gc>) {
         )
         .unwrap();
 
+    string
+        .set(
+            ctx,
+            "match",
+            AnyCallback::from_fn(&ctx, |ctx, _, stack| {
+                let (v1, v2): (Value, Value) = stack.consume(ctx)?;
+
+                if let Value::String(s1) = v1 {
+                    if let Value::String(s2) = v2 {
+                        let mut m = LuaPattern::new(s2.to_str()?);
+
+                        if let Some(str_match) = m.match_maybe(s1.to_str()?) {
+                            stack.replace(ctx, String::from_slice(&ctx, str_match));
+                            return Ok(CallbackReturn::Return);
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                Err("Bad argument to string.match".into_value(ctx).into())
+            }),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
     ctx.state.globals.set(ctx, "string", string).unwrap();
 }
diff --git a/tests/scripts/string.lua b/tests/scripts/string.lua
index 277b82b4..951a32d8 100644
--- a/tests/scripts/string.lua
+++ b/tests/scripts/string.lua
@@ -35,7 +35,14 @@ function test_len()
         string.len(-2147483648) == 11
 end
 
+function test_match()
+    return
+        string.match("a4b", "%d") == "4" and
+        string.match("hello world", "%a+") == "hello"
+end
+
 assert(
     test_concat() and
-    test_len()
+    test_len() and
+    test_match()
 )