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On parsing and condensing substrings of LR languages in linear time. (English) Zbl 0984.68093
Summary: LR parsers have long been known as being an efficient algorithm for recognizing deterministic context-free grammars. In this article, we present a linear-time method for parsing substrings of LR languages. The algorithm depends on the LR automaton which is used for the usual parsing of complete sentences. We prove the correctness and linear complexity of our algorithm and present an interesting extension of our substring parser that allows to condense the input string, which increases the speed when reparsing that string for a second time.

##### MSC:
 68Q42 Grammars and rewriting systems
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