From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] Need NFA/DFA conversion help
Date: 16 Sep 2004 01:05:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095260758.27775.1047.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
I need some help understanding how to convert
an NFA with *labelled* arcs into an equivalent DFA.
I'm not even sure it is possible. Any advice,
pointers to papers, or code appreciated. The main
use will be in a set of regexp related tools intended
to replace Ocamllex, Str, and PCRE with pure caml code,
and then extend that with an RTN based parsing system.
Ocamllex functionality is already available,
however group extraction and friends seem
to require labelled arcs (and RTNs definitely do).
I'm using the naive algorithm (regexp->DFA) from
the Dragon book with the pattern-recognition
modification (which is enough for a tokeniser).
I can't see how to modify it to keep track of
the arcs (special marks in regexps like group
brackets, lookahead operator, etc).
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next reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 15:05 skaller [this message]
2004-09-15 15:41 ` Luc Maranget
2004-09-15 19:15 ` Alain Frisch
2004-09-15 17:50 ` Jason Hickey
2004-09-15 20:50 ` Jason Hickey
2004-09-15 23:35 ` skaller
2004-09-16 11:50 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-09-16 12:07 ` Luc Maranget
2004-09-16 12:37 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-16 13:29 ` skaller
2004-09-16 12:57 ` skaller
2004-09-16 13:04 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
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