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Regular expressions can be easily understood by ordinary software engineers and programmers, as shown by the immense interest in and the success of scripting languages like Perl, based essentially on regular expression pattern matching. We believe that regular expressions provide an elegant and powerful specification language also for monitoring requirements, because an execution trace of a program is in fact a string of states. Extended regular expressions (EREs) add complementation to regular expressions, which brings additional benefits by allowing one to specify patterns that must not occur during an execution. Complementation gives one the power to express patterns on strings non-elementarily more compactly. | Regular expressions can be easily understood by ordinary software engineers and programmers, as shown by the immense interest in and the success of scripting languages like Perl, based essentially on regular expression pattern matching. We believe that regular expressions provide an elegant and powerful specification language also for monitoring requirements, because an execution trace of a program is in fact a string of states. Extended regular expressions (EREs) add complementation to regular expressions, which brings additional benefits by allowing one to specify patterns that must not occur during an execution. Complementation gives one the power to express patterns on strings non-elementarily more compactly. | ||
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Regular expressions can be easily understood by ordinary software engineers and programmers, as shown by the immense interest in and the success of scripting languages like Perl, based essentially on regular expression pattern matching. We believe that regular expressions provide an elegant and powerful specification language also for monitoring requirements, because an execution trace of a program is in fact a string of states. Extended regular expressions (EREs) add complementation to regular expressions, which brings additional benefits by allowing one to specify patterns that must not occur during an execution. Complementation gives one the power to express patterns on strings non-elementarily more compactly.
Publications
More information can be found in the following paper:
- An Effective Algorithm for the Membership Problem for Extended Regular Expressions
- Grigore Rosu
FOSSACS'07, LNCS 4423, pp 332-345, 2007
PDF, FOSSACS'07, BIB
- An Effective Algorithm for the Membership Problem for Extended Regular Expressions
- Grigore Rosu
Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2694, August 2005
PDF, Technical Report @ UIUC, BIB
