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State machines in order to decide from
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left to right whether or not to accept
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the user's input like Ma at harbard edu
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can we get from the start state so to
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speak to an accept state to decide Yep
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this was in fact meeting the pattern
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well let's propose that this
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non-deterministic finite automaton look
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like this instead we're going to start
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as before in the leftmost start State
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and we're going to necessarily consume
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one character per this first Edge which
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is labeled with a DOT to indicate that
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we can consume any one character like
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the m in Ma at harvard.edu then we can
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spend some time consuming more
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characters before the at sign so the a a
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l a n then we can consume the at sign
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then we can consume at least one more
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character because recall that the Rex
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has dot plus this time and then we can
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consume even more characters if we want
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so if we first consume the H in
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harvard.edu that then leaves the a r v a
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d and then e du and now here too we're
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at the end of the story but we're in an
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accept state because that's circle at
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the end has two circles total which
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means that if the computer if this
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function finds itself in that accept
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state after reading the entirety of the
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user's input it is too in fact a valid
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email address if by contrast we had
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gotten stuck in one of those other
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states unable to follow a transition one
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of those edges and therefore unable to
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make progress in the user's input from
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left to right then we would have to
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conclude that that email address is in
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fact invalid well how can we go upon
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approving this code further let me
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propose now that we check not only for a
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username and also something after the
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username like a domain name but
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minimally required that the string ends
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with edu as well well I think I could do
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this fairly straightforward not only do
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I want there to be something after the
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at sign like the domain like Harvard I
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want the whole thing to end with
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edu but there's a little bit of danger
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here what have I done wrong by
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implementing my regular expression now
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in this way by using plus
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do.edu what could go wrong with this
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version uh the dot is dot means
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something else in this context where it
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means zero or more repetitions of a
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character which is why it will interpret
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it differently exactly even though I
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mean for it to mean literally edu a
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period and then edu unfortunately in the
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world of regular Expressions dot means
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any character which means that this
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string could technically end in a edu or
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or bedu or cedu and so forth but that's
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not in fact that I want so any instincts
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now as to how I could fix this problem
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and let me demonstrate the problem more
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clearly let me go ahead and run this
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code here let me go ahead and type in
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maen harvard.edu and as always this does
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in fact work but Watch What Happens here
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let me go ahead and do Ma at Harvard and
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then uh M at Harvard question mark edu
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enter that too is valid so I could put
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any character there and it's still going
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to be accepted but I don't want question
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mark edu I want edu literally any
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instincts then for how we can solve this
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problem here how can I get this new
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function re. search and a regular
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expression more generally to literally
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mean a dot might you think you can use
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the uh Escape character the backslash
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indeed the so-called Escape character
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which we've seen before outside of the
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context of regular Expressions when we
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talked about new lines back sln was a
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way of telling the computer I want a new
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line but without actually literally
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hitting enter and moving the cursor
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yourself and you don't want a literal n
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on the screen so back sln was a way to
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escape and and convey that you want a
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new line it turns out regular
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Expressions use a similar technique to
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solve this problem here in fact let me
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go into my regular expression and before
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that final dot let me put a single
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