Which Regular Expression Patterns Are Hard to Match?

Regular expressions constitute a fundamental notion in formal language theory and are frequently used in computer science to define search patterns. In particular, regular expression matching and membership testing are widely used computational primitives, employed in many programming languages and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Backurs, Arturs, Indyk, Piotr
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110931
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