Monday, 3 December 2012

Chapter 7: Regular Expression


The last part of this course is about regular expression. I have being used regular expression for a long time.  The material of lecture introduced is easy for sample. They include 0 and 1 only. (Oh, I am wrong, empty and null are included.)In practice, regular expression involves all characters and signs, like email address, http links or formatted numbers. So, the content we learned looks no useful. Maybe there is higher level course that expends this basic skill to introduce more complicated samples like we meet in the work.

So far, I do not know the usage of automata in the live. I remember I started to use regular expression at beginning of this century with some programming language(JAVA or C#??). Base on my opinion, regular expression and automata were developed with language development. So, we use regular expression to match search. Is it the unique application for regular expression?   

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