On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:55 +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Asiri Rathnayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Bram, Nicolai,
> 
> A 'k' would be greatly appreciated.

I'm really really sorry, won't happen again...

> > 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().

Thanks a bunch, I was completely lost...

- Asiri

>   nikolai

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