Regex Engine
Author: Jonathan Chávez
This is a simple regex engine that accepts concatenation, union, kleene star and parenthesis.
Implementing using Shunting Yard algorithm to parse the expression, then Thompson's construction to create a NFA given the parsed expression, finally traversing the NFA.
Hierarchy:
()*- concatenation
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How to use
You can run with docker and pass the parameters at runtime with the following instructions:
git clone https://github.com/JonathanChavezTamales/SimpleRegexEngine && cd SimpleRegexEngine
docker build -t regexengine .
docker run -t regexengine [string] [pattern] [replacement]