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Finite-state automaton for regular expressions.

This package contains a full DFA/NFA implementation with Unicode
alphabet and support for all standard (and a number of non-standard)
regular expression operations.

The most commonly used functionality is located in the classes
<tt><xref:Lucene.Net.Util.Automaton.Automaton></tt> and
<tt><xref:Lucene.Net.Util.Automaton.RegExp></tt>.

For more information, go to the package home page at 
<tt>[http://www.brics.dk/automaton/](http://www.brics.dk/automaton/)</tt>.
@lucene.experimental