Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Andy Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: How make multifinished DFA for merged regexps? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:19:55 -0800 (PST) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 13 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <19-12-005@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="9106"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: lex, question, DFA Posted-Date: 19 Dec 2019 23:01:21 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2386 I can create DFA direct from regexp. But for language lexer I must have DFA for couple regexp. One solution is crating DFA with multi finished states. For example r0 = ab r1 = ac | 0 | 1 a | 1 | b | | 2(F) c | | 3(F) How to check if r0 and r1 are disjoint?