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* A finite state machine consists of n states (struct ts_fsm_token)
- * representing the pattern as a finite automation. The data is read
+ * representing the pattern as a finite automaton. The data is read
* sequentially on an octet basis. Every state token specifies the number
* of recurrences and the type of value accepted which can be either a
* specific character or ctype based set of characters. The available