From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T21:44:06+09:00
Subject: Re: strings and regex's

On Sep 13, 2005, at 9:06 PM, jdm wrote:
> I'm parsing some html and have a table-driven state machine that  
> configures
> itself by reading tuples (one per line) of "present state",  
> "pattern to match",
> and "next state" with this code:

Just an aside - you might be interested in my TagTreeScanner class,  
just to look at.
http://phrogz.net/RubyLibs/OWLScribble/doc/tts.html

(I still need to finish and upload the version with the nicer DSL  
setup. But at its heart, it's a state machine running regexp against  
strings to determine the next state (and build a tree along the way).)