Can I use regular expression as an input to a turing machine?









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So lets assume L is a set that takes M as an input. M is turing machine s.t M does not accept any string starting with a '1'. Our alphabet is 0,1. Ok so my question is can I use M("^[^1]") to represent any string that is our set L? Thank you.










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