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  name: tokn
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  platform: ruby
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  - Jeff Sember
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  - bin/toknprocess
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  - CHANGELOG.txt
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- # @markup rdoc
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- == 'tokn' : A ruby gem for constructing DFAs and using them to tokenize text files.
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- Written and (c) by Jeff Sember, March 2013.
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- = Description of the problem
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- For a simple example, suppose a particular text file is designed to have
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- tokens of the following three types:
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- [] 'a' followed by any number of 'a' or 'b'
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- [] 'b' followed by either 'aa' or zero or more 'b'
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- [] 'bbb'
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- We will also allow an additional token, one or more spaces, to separate them.
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- These four token types can be written using regular expressions as:
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- sep: \s
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- tku: a(a|b)*
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- tkv: b(aa|b*)
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- tkw: bbb
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- We've given each token definition a name (to the left of the colon).
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- Now suppose your program needs to read a text file and interpret the tokens it
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- finds there. {This can be done using the DFA (deterministic finite state automaton)
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- shown here.}[link:sample_dfa.pdf]
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- The token extraction algorithm has these steps:
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- 1. Begin at the start state, S0.
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- 1. Look at the next character in the source (text) file. If there is an arrow (edge) labelled with that character, follow it to another state (it may lead to the same state; that's okay), and advance the cursor to the next character in the source file.
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- 1. If there's an arrow labelled with a negative number N, don't follow the edge, but instead remember the lowest (i.e., most negative) such N found.
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- 1. Continue steps 2 and 3 until no further progress is possible.
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- 1. At this point, N indicates the name of the token found. The cursor should be restored to the point it was at when that N was recorded. The token's text consists of the characters from the starting cursor position to that point.
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- 1. If no N value was recorded, then the source text doesn't match any of the tokens, which is considered an error.
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- The tokn module provides a simple and efficient way to perform this tokenization process.
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- Its major accomplishment is not just performing the above six steps, but rather that
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- it also can construct, from a set of token definitions, the DFA to be used in these steps.
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- Such DFAs are very useful, and can be used by non-Ruby programs as well.
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- = Using the tokn module in a Ruby program
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- There are three object classes of interest: DFA, Tokenizer, and Token. A DFA is
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- compiled once from a script containing token definitions (e.g, "tku: b(aa|b*) ..."),
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- and can then be stored (either in memory, or on disk as a JSON string) for later use.
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- When tokens need to be extracted from a source file (or simple string), a Tokenizer is
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- constructed. It requires both the DFA and the source file as input. Once this is done,
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- individual Token objects can be read from the Tokenizer.
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- Here's some example Ruby code showing how a text file "source.txt" can be split into
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- tokens. We'll assume there's a text file "tokendefs.txt" that contains the
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- require "Tokenizer"
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- dfa = DFA.from_script(readTextFile("tokendefs.txt"))
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- require "Tokenizer"
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- = Using the tokn command line utilities
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- The module has two utility scripts: tokncompile, and toknprocess. These can be
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- The tokncompile script reads a token definition script from standard input, and
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- It will produce the JSON encoding of the appropriate DFA. For a description of how
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- this JSON string represents the DFA, see Dfa.rb.
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- The toknprocess script takes two arguments: the name of a file containing a
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- WS 1 1 // Example source file that can be tokenized
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- ID 3 1 speed
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