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No Magic: Regular Expressions
| | www.abubalay.com
From recursive descent to LR parsing - Abubalay
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| | [AI summary] The article explains the concepts of recursive descent and LR parsing while deriving practical parsing techniques like Pratt parsing from automaton theoretical foundations.
| | twomorecents.org
Writing a Regular Expression Engine - Two More Cents
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| | [AI summary] This text is a detailed exploration of the development and implementation of a regular expression engine, drawing from the works of several key figures in the field. It covers various features and techniques, including capturing groups, backreferences, numeric ranges, and the use of threads to simulate backtracking. The author also discusses the inspiration from Russ Cox, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and their contributions to the field of regular expressions and computing.
| | eli.thegreenplace.net
Top-Down operator precedence (Pratt) parsing - Eli Bendersky's website
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| | [AI summary] A technical tutorial explaining the Top-Down Operator Precedence (Pratt) parsing algorithm for handling expression grammars.
| | ntietz.com
Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies | nicole@web
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| [AI summary] The author details the process of building a command-line argument parser from scratch in Rust without any external dependencies to improve compile times and reduce maintenance overhead, while also sharing Rust code snippets.