Re:The Day I Fell in Love with Fuzzing
by angara on Monday January 28, 2019 @06:06PM
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Regular expressions are also useful for lexing. I like to work from this example code from the Python standard library docs: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/re.html#writing-a-tokeni...
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Remember, `lex` is just a pile of regular expressions, so it is great for simple parsing in C. There are good reasons it was known as the Swiss Army knife of Unix before scripting took over :-)