Syntactic Code Search with Sequence-to-Tree Matching: Supporting Syntactic Search with Incomplete Code Fragments

Lightweight syntactic analysis tools like Semgrep and Comby leverage the tree structure of code, making them more expressive than string and regex search. Unlike traditional language frameworks (e.g., ESLint) that analyze codebases via explicit syntax tree manipulations, these tools use query langua...

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Published in:	Proceedings of ACM on programming languages Vol. 8; no. PLDI; pp. 2051 - 2072
Main Authors:	Matute, Gabriel, Ni, Wode, Barik, Titus, Cheung, Alvin, Chasins, Sarah E.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY, USA ACM 20.06.2024
Subjects:	Formal language definitions Information systems Query representation Software and its engineering Software maintenance tools Theory of computation Tree languages Code Search Syntactic Analysis Tree Wildcards
ISSN:	2475-1421, 2475-1421
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