Lamar Owen wrote: > ... > And I know my usage of these terms (as well as Mr. Friedl's) is somewhat > irregular, since the NFA and DFA concepts are used for much more than regular > expressions.
Thanks for the summary. I'll have to check out the book you mentioned and the docs for the various packages. If you are interested, the standard theoretical text is Hopcraft and Ullman's _Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation_. It has lot of info packed into a tiny book, but is far from practical... -- Matthew Donadio ([EMAIL PROTECTED])