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Programming Techniques: Regular expression search algorithm

Published in Communications of the ACM • Jun 1, 1968
Authors:
Ken Thompson

Abstract

A method for locating specific character strings embedded in character text is described and an implementation of this method in the form of a compiler is discussed. The compiler accepts a regular expression as source language and produces an IBM 7094 program as object language. The object program t...

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