Re: [dev] another text user interface for sam

From: Marc André Tanner <mat_AT_brain-dump.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 21:56:41 +0100

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 06:12:32PM +0000, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> We agree for pretty much the same reasoning. (I'm not sure
> why you assumed otherwise.)

Misunderstanding on my part I guess. These are just limitations of
the regex(3) API but have no particular relevance for *structural*
regular expressions. I.e. it is possible to build a structural
regexp library on top of this crippled interface it probably just
wont be particularly efficient.

> > The corresponding section of the vis README[1] also has a few links to
> > existing engines / algorithms used etc.
>
> I'm very familiar with the literature.

Good to know, in this case you are probably more up to date than I am.

For example a quick search led me to "Efficiently extracting full
parse trees using regular expressions with capture groups" which
I hadn't seen before.

What is in your opinion the current state of the art technique/algorithm?

> I think it's also worth looking
> at the work of Grathwohl et al. (2013, 2014).

For others wanting to take a look, I guess you are referring to
the following papers:

 - Two-pass greedy regular expression parsing
 - Optimally Streaming Greedy Regular Expression Parsing

> Anyway, this is why I
> say such a library would need "quite careful planning."

I agree.

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