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On Extended Regular Expressions

2009; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-00982-2_24

1611-3349

Benjamin Carle, Paliath Narendran,

Logic, programming, and type systems

In this paper we extend the work of Campeanu, Salomaa and Yu [1] on extended regular expressions featured in the Unix utility egrep and the popular scripting language Perl. We settle the open issue of closure under intersection and provide an improved pumping lemma that will show that a larger class of languages is not recognizable by extended regular expressions. We also investigate some questions regarding extended multi-pattern languages introduced by Nagy in [2].