Automa tutorial

Currently only part 1 is released. Part 2 will be created on a later date, and will be about how to create BioJulia readers and writers using Automa.

Automa.jl is a Julia package that creates optimized finite state machines (FSMs) from regular expressions. These finite state machines may be augmented with actions, which enables the FSM to execute arbitrary Julia expressions during the execution of the FSM.

In plain words, Automa can be used to generate fast and accurate parsers.

In this short tutorial, I introduce how to use Automa to parse data stored in memory.