Re: '^' and '$' in Regular expression

Quinn Tyler Jackson <quinn_jackson2004@yahoo.ca>
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:12:42 -0700

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From: Quinn Tyler Jackson <quinn_jackson2004@yahoo.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:12:42 -0700
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 10-04-052 10-04-055 10-04-057
Keywords: lex, DFA
Posted-Date: 22 Apr 2010 12:53:25 EDT

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Tangel <march1896@gmail.com> wrote:


> But when the regexp is /a*/, and the buffer is "aaaaa",
> after the pre-precessing, "\naaaaa\n" is not acceptable for /a*/.


The key here is that the state-machine must equate both \n and the
start state with a beginning-of-line state and \n and the final
no-more-input with the end-of-line state. In this way you no longer
need to pad the input with sentinels.


Cheers,
Quinn



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