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To: Maurice Petrie <mpetrie@infoscigroup.com> Subject: Re: Lost flex .l file In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 02 Feb 1998 14:10:01 PST. Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 11:15:12 PST From: Vern Paxson <vern> > I am curious as to > whether there is a simple way to backtrack from the generated source to > reproduce the lost list of tokens we are searching on. In theory, it's straight-forward to go from the DFA representation back to a regular-expression representation - the two are isomorphic. In practice, a huge headache, because you have to unpack all the tables back into a single DFA representation, and then write a program to munch on that and translate it into an RE. Sorry for the less-than-happy news ... Vern