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Deterministic Regular Expressions with Back-References

Authors Dominik D. Freydenberger, Markus L. Schmid

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  • Deterministic Regular Expression
  • Regex
  • Glushkov Automaton

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Abstract

Most modern libraries for regular expression matching allow back-references (i.e. repetition operators) that substantially increase expressive power, but also lead to intractability. In order to find a better balance between expressiveness and tractability, we combine these with the notion of determinism for regular expressions used in XML DTDs and XML Schema. This includes the definition of a suitable automaton model, and a generalization of the Glushkov construction.

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Dominik D. Freydenberger and Markus L. Schmid. Deterministic Regular Expressions with Back-References. In 34th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 66, pp. 33:1-33:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2017.33

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Dominik D. Freydenberger
Markus L. Schmid

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