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Lab

Key insights:

  • more languages than regular expressions
  • we do not know how to write regular expressions for some languages (as a direct consequence of the above)
  • reg.exps. are unambiguous and FINITE language representations

Objectives:

  • Understand what is a language and a regular expression is, and the relation between them;
  • Write several regular expressions for designated languages
  • Identify languages described by some regular expressions (e.g. ?!)

Resources (tentative):