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Markov Interpreter
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Markov algorithm is a string manipulation system.
It takes a set of production rules in form of

pattern => replacewith

where pattern is a string to be matched in input string.
replacewith is a string to be used to replace matched
string in the input string.

PRE-REQUISITES:

Requires jre to be installed. Currently java versions
1.4.2 and above are supported.

USAGE:

From command line, type the following command

Markov <rulefile> <instring>

where rulefile is a file containing set of production rules
and instring is the input string.

LICENSE:

This software is released under Open Source Software License.
Please read LICENSE file for more details.

LIMITATIONS:

The first release of this interpreter will support only
uppercase letters for pattern and lowercase letters for
replace string. Pattern can be only one character in length
and can be only upper case english letter i.e, A-Z.
Replace string can be of any length. It cannot contain any
characters other than a-z.