Derivatives of regular expressions correspond to state transitions in finite automata When a finite automaton makes a transition under input symbol a
Motivation: Given a pattern (regular expression) for string searching we might want to convert it into a deterministic finite automaton or nondeter-
Finite Automata Recognize Regular Languages Theorem 1 L is a regular language iff there is a regular expression R such that L(R) = L iff there is a DFA M
We are going to construct regular expressions from a DFA by eliminating states When we eliminate a state s all the paths that went through s no longer
Generalize DFAs/NFAs to allow transitions to be any regular expressions • For any DFA/NFA/generalized NFA eliminate states one by one • If just 1 start state
Regular Languages Page 2 Costa Busch - LSU 2 Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA) Input Tape “Accept” Languages of Regular Expressions
A language is regular iff it is the set of strings accepted by some deterministic finite automaton Kleene's Theorem (a) For any regular expression r L(r) is
Keywords: Brzozowski Regex Automata DFA NDFA Transition State conversion of regular expressions into finite state automata and finite state
Deterministic finite state automata define languages that require finite resources (states) to recognize Ashutosh Trivedi Lecture 4: Regular Expressions
Recap: Deterministic Finite Automaton ? A DFA is a 5-tuple M = (Q ? ? q 0 F) – Q is a finite set of states – ? is a finite input alphabet (e g