Here's a graph generator; if you want to visualize what I'm talking about: regexper.com/#a(b%7Cc)*d
The explanation of the concepts came from a university course though... maybe I should do an article about this so I can link it as an explanation of what I'm talking about...
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Seeing Regular Expressions drawn into their finite state machine graphs (just circles with arrows between them).
That it's just moving from one state to another based on matching a character. And all regex could boil down to a language of four things:
cmatch any literal character (likec)|or operation (match this or that)*loop()groupThe rest of it mostly being helpful sugar.
Do you have link of that?
Here's a graph generator; if you want to visualize what I'm talking about: regexper.com/#a(b%7Cc)*d
The explanation of the concepts came from a university course though... maybe I should do an article about this so I can link it as an explanation of what I'm talking about...