Handling Delimited Content in Lexical Analysis
When working with lexical analysis, clean separations between tokens are not always straightforward. Consider a language with string literals where variables are single characters:
x = "a"
y = "bc"
An initial grammar attempt might look like this:
use super::{Var, Lit, Eql};
grammar;
pub Var: Var = <r"[x-z]"&g ...
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:15:18 +0000 by mhoard8110
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Regular Expressions
Regular expressions enable pattern matching across data streams using wildcards, metacharacters, and keywords to identify and extract specific information.
Two primary syntax standards exist: Basic Regular Expressions (BRE) and Extended Regular Expressions (ERE). The key difference lies in metacharacter handling—ERE requires ...
Posted on Sat, 16 May 2026 06:18:24 +0000 by angershallreign