Agreed. Ideas like this are what I'm looking for. Whenever I have used
FSM, it has taken some effort to get what I want, and I am hoping we can
come up with a more congenial spec.
Henry Rich
On 3/23/2017 10:21 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
I have been wishing for an option to get the first of the s columns of
the trace. Currently, you can use (5;...) and index column 4, but i
anticipate it being significantly faster (and more order-of-magnitude
more space efficient) to just get the one column.
The point being that it can be useful to analyze a body of text using
;: and extract the state of each character (state being the row# which
will handle the next character). (Note that the parsing operation is
mostly irrelevant, here, except as something that happens to exist.)
Thanks,
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