I know that some of the capabilities of the Perl regular expression engine are not regular. However, what class is it? It might be context-free, but CS theory was never my strongest subject.
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I know that some of the capabilities of the Perl regular expression engine are not regular. However, what class is it? It might be context-free, but CS theory was never my strongest subject.
Actually, many implementations are neither regular nor context-free; patterns have become their own beast. This Wikipedia article has more on this, including a bit from Larry Wall, the author of the Perl language.