DFA for .*/.*

[tgregoneil]

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[ibudiselic]

The dot character doesn't mean "any character" in this regex language, as explained by Ivan. The purpose of this tool is primarily to help visualize how regular expressions get translated into automata. To that end, the language for defining regular expressions is minimal, and doesn't support the myriad of shortcuts that exist in regex engines in most programming languages, the purpose of which is to actually match text with regexes written as succintly as possible. Any regular expression can be written in this minimal notation as well, though. The advantage of using a minimal language for defining regular expressions is that you can explain all the rules to someone who's never heard of regular expressions in a few minutes, and they can memorize the rules and use the tool immediately. There are plenty of other regex engines out there with different goals in mind, and I'm sure you can find one that does whatever it is you want to do. Cheers!

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 08:24 tgregoneil ***@***.***> wrote: If the . character is like any other character as you previously mentioned, then what's the point of your definition of a regular expression? . means any character (except newline), not the literal period symbol. If you delete this again I won't re-post. I'm not big on critical posts either and understand if you delete it. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#21 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AA2ubAAXqRppFSP2u2OneSDNaw0Y3qJxks5tehc3gaJpZM4SrqAn> .