Using the lexical specification below, what sequence of the rules is used to tokenize the string "dictatorial"?
1.dict
2.dictator
3.[a-z]*
4.dictatorial
What i think the question is asking is for the regular expression so that while pattern matching the string "dictatorial" will be chosen as token. what i am not getting here is the answer to this question, which is option 3.
my doubt is,why not option 4th ? i mean both are fulfilling the requirements after all.
the solution has stated that 3rd one has the higher priority than 4th one and i don't understand why!
