sysctl with regex?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Feb 10 12:28:18 UTC 2010


On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 01:14:01PM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > Formally, a regular expression is a textual representation of a finite
> > state machine that describes a context-free grammar.
> 
> I dont think so.... regular expressions describe regular languages which are
> a strict subset of context free languages.

The sentence is still correct, strictly speaking :) Not all context-free
grammars can be represented by a FSM, those that can be are the regular
languages.

Joerg


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