正则表达式与上下文无关文法

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正则表达式

正则表达式在日常开发中时不时都会遇到,我们先来看看正则表达式( Regular Expression)的定义(参考龙书英文第2版121页):

  1. ε是一个正则表达式,它生成的语言L(ε)等价于{ε},即L(ε)={ε},就是一个空字符串
  2. 如果a属于符号集Σ,那么a也是一个正则表达式,且其生成的语言L(a)={a},就是一个a字符
  3. 如果r和s都是正则表达式,那么r | s也是正则表达式,L(r | s) = L(r) ∪ L(s)
  4. 如果r和s都是正则表达式,那么r s也是正则表达式,L(r s) = L(r) L(s)
  5. 如果r是正则表达式,则r*也是正则表达式,L(r*)=(L(r))*
  6. 如果r是正则表达式,则(r)也是正则表达式,L((r))=L(r)
来看看正则表达式的一些简单例子,假设字符表Σ是全部的小写字母(a~z)以及阿拉伯数字(0~9),则:
a
abc
a|b
ab|bc
a*
(ab)*
(a|b)(0|1)*
都是正则表达式。

正则定义

有时一个正则表达式很复杂,我们希望能够把这个正则表达式用记号记下来,以便以后使用,于是就有了正则定义(Regular Definitions)(参考龙书英文第2版123页):
设Σ是符号表,如果有一系列的定义:
d1 → r1
d2→ r2
...
dn→ rn
并且:
  1. 任一个di都是一个新的符号,它既不属于Σ,也不属于{d1,d2,d3,...,d(i-1)}
  2. 任一个ri都是一个正则表达式,能够由符号表Σ以及{d1,d2,d3,...,d(i-1)}所表示
这样就构成了一组正则表达式定义。

上下文无关文法

上下文无关文法(Context-Free Grammar)的定义参考龙书英文第2版197页:
  1. 终结符号(Terminals)
  2. 非终结符号(Nonterminals)
  3. 一个非终结符号作为开始符号
  4. 一组产生式
稍详细的内容可见我的另一篇博文 到底什么是上下文无关文法?

正则定义与上下文无关文法的区别

正则定义与上下文无关文法的重要区别在于,在正则定义中是不允许递归定义的,例如A → aA|b不是一个正则定义,为其左边的A必须是一个新的符号,也就是说不能在其他地方定义过,胆识其右边要求每一个符号都是定义过的,因此这个定义无法满足。而上下文无关文法则没有这个约束,因此A → aA|b是一个上下文无关文法的产生式,但不是正则定义的定义式。
看过一段话,意思是正则表达式在编译器构建中一般用来进行词法分析,通过NFA、DFA就可以识别,而更复杂的文法就需要以来其他算法了。
Regular expressions and BNF are two grammatical formalisms for describing sets of strings. Regular expressions are a concise and convenient notation for describing syntax when "nesting" is not an issue. BNF is a more powerful notation that allows for the description of nested language constructs using nonterminal symbols in arbitrary recursive combinations. Thus regular expressions are appropriate for token-level syntax of programming languages, while BNF is required for the higher-level recursive syntax of expressions, statements and so on.
原文请看 http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/D-Lib/RegExp.html

运用正则定义的要求,我们可以从上下文无关文法中,筛选出符合正则定义的产生式,这些符合正则定义的产生式,就可以用来生成有限状态自动机。
下面的类实现了从上下文无关文法产生式中筛选处正则定义式:
/*
    This file is one of the component a Context-free Grammar Parser Generator,
    which accept a piece of text as the input, and generates a parser
    for the inputted context-free grammar.
    Copyright (C) 2013, Junbiao Pan (Email: panjunbiao@gmail.com)

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

package analyzer;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import abnf.Rule;
import abnf.RuleName;

public class RegularAnalyzer {
	private List<Rule> nonRegularRules = new ArrayList<Rule>();
    public List<Rule> getNonRegularRules() { return nonRegularRules; }

	private List<Rule> regularRules = new ArrayList<Rule>();
	public List<Rule> getRegularRules() { return regularRules; }

    private List<Rule> undefinedRules = new ArrayList<Rule>();
    public List<Rule> getUndefinedRules() { return undefinedRules; }

	public RegularAnalyzer(List<Rule> rules) {
		Set<RuleName> definedRuleNames = new HashSet<RuleName>();
        List<Rule> observedRules = new ArrayList<Rule>();
        observedRules.addAll(rules);

		boolean foundRegular;
		do {
			foundRegular = false;
			for(int index = observedRules.size() - 1; index >= 0; index --) {
                Set<RuleName> dependent = observedRules.get(index).getElements().getDependentRuleNames();
                if (definedRuleNames.containsAll(dependent)) {
                    definedRuleNames.add(observedRules.get(index).getRuleName());
                    regularRules.add(observedRules.get(index));
                    observedRules.remove(index);
                    foundRegular = true;
                    continue;
                }

                if (!dependent.contains(observedRules.get(index).getRuleName())) {
                    continue;
                }

                dependent.remove(observedRules.get(index).getRuleName());
                if (definedRuleNames.containsAll(dependent)) {
                    definedRuleNames.add(observedRules.get(index).getRuleName());
                    nonRegularRules.add(observedRules.get(index));
                    observedRules.remove(index);
                    foundRegular = true;
                }
			}
		} while (foundRegular);
        undefinedRules.addAll(observedRules);
        observedRules.clear();
	}
}
 
原文地址:https://www.cnblogs.com/javawebsoa/p/3198879.html