On 3/19/07, Asiri Rathnayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Bram, Nicolai,
A 'k' would be greatly appreciated.
I'm unable to grasp the description ( attachment ) given in the regxp.c file. For a moment they seem like NFA fragments for operators |,+,*
Well, yes, that's what they are. The diagrams show you how the different operators are represented. I think the representation can be a bit difficult to grasp at first, because the representation isn't like a state diagram/tree/DAG, but more of a list of assembler instructions. These assembler-like instructions are then executed by an interpreter that executes the appropriate C code for doing the matching. This is (mainly) done in regmatch(). nikolai
