[slimsag]

Understood, this helped me a lot, thank you. I definitely had confusion around DFA/NFA being a _type of regex engine implementation_ and see now why that is incorrect.

I updated the article[0] so as to hopefully not confuse others, really appreciate you taking the time to respond to me again, and sorry for not understanding your earlier comment :)

[0] https://github.com/hexops/devlog/commit/0159b510556c2943cbca...

[burntsushi]

No worries. Feel free to email me if you want to geek out about regexes. :-) My email is on my web site, linked in my profile.