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From: Ben Hanson <jamin.hanson@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Regular expression string searching & matching
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Here's the dump of the state machine for that regex using lexertl:

State: 0
  [/] -> 1

State: 1
  [*] -> 2

State: 2
  [^*] -> 2
  [*] -> 3

State: 3
  [^*/] -> 2
  [*] -> 3
  [/] -> 4

State: 4
  END STATE

Regards,

Ben