I'm feeling retro today, my language of choice for this task is IBM Enterprise Cobol - char count 2462 4078 (Sorry, pasted from a screen oriented device, trailing spaces are a tragic side effect):
Identification Division.
Program-ID. FSM.
Environment Division.
Data Division.
Working-Storage Section.
01 FSM-Storage.
*> The current state
05 Start-State Pic X(2).
05 Next-State Pic X(2).
*> List of valid states
05 FSM-State-Cnt Pic 9.
05 FSM-States Occurs 9
Pic X(2).
*> List of valid transitions
05 FSM-Trans-Cnt Pic 999.
05 FSM-Trans Occurs 999.
10 Trans-Start Pic X(2).
10 Trans-Char Pic X.
10 Trans-End Pic X(2).
*> Input
05 In-Buff Pic X(72).
*> Some work fields
05 II Pic s9(8) binary.
05 JJ Pic s9(8) binary.
05 Wk-Start Pic X(2).
05 Wk-Char Pic X.
05 Wk-End Pic X(2).
05 Wk-Cnt Pic 999.
05 Pic X value ' '.
88 Valid-Input value 'V'.
05 Pic X value ' '.
88 Valid-State value 'V'.
05 Pic X value ' '.
88 End-Of-States value 'E'.
05 Pic X value ' '.
88 Trans-Not-Found value ' '.
88 Trans-Found value 'T'.
Linkage Section.
01 The-Char-Area.
05 The-Char Pic X.
88 End-Of-Input value x'13'.
05 The-Next-Char Pic X.
Procedure Division.
Perform Load-States
Perform Load-Transitions
Perform Load-Input
Perform Process-Input
Goback.
*> Run the machine...
Process-Input.
Move FSM-States (1) to Start-State
Set address of The-Char-Area to address of In-Buff
Perform until End-Of-Input
Perform Get-Next-State
Set address of The-Char-Area to address of The-Next-Char
Move Next-State to Start-State
End-Perform
If Start-State (1:1) is Alphabetic-Lower
Display 'REJECT'
Else
Display 'ACCEPT'
End-If
Exit.
*> Look up the first valid transition...
Get-Next-State.
Set Trans-Not-Found to true
Perform varying II from 1 by 1
until (II > FSM-State-Cnt)
or Trans-Found
If Start-State = Trans-Start (II)
and The-Char = Trans-Char (II)
Move Trans-End (II) to Next-State
Set Trans-Found to true
End-If
End-Perform
Display Start-State ' ' The-Char ' -> ' Next-State
Exit.
*> Read the states in...
Load-States.
Move low-values to In-Buff
Accept In-Buff from SYSIN
Move 0 to FSM-State-Cnt
Unstring In-Buff
delimited by ' '
into FSM-States (1) FSM-States (2) FSM-States (3)
FSM-States (4) FSM-States (5) FSM-States (6)
FSM-States (7) FSM-States (8) FSM-States (9)
count in FSM-State-Cnt
End-Unstring
Exit.
*> Read the transitions in...
Load-Transitions.
Move low-values to In-Buff
Accept In-Buff from SYSIN
Perform varying II from 1 by 1
until End-Of-States
Move 0 to Wk-Cnt
Unstring In-Buff
delimited by ' '
into Wk-Start Wk-Char Wk-End
count in Wk-Cnt
End-Unstring
If Wk-Cnt = 3
Add 1 to FSM-Trans-Cnt
Move Wk-Start to Trans-Start (FSM-Trans-Cnt)
Move Wk-Char to Trans-Char (FSM-Trans-Cnt)
Move Wk-End to Trans-End (FSM-Trans-Cnt)
Move low-values to In-Buff
Accept In-Buff from SYSIN
Else
Set End-Of-States to true
End-If
End-Perform
Exit.
*> Fix input so it has newlines...the joys of mainframes
Load-Input.
Perform varying II from length of In-Buff by -1
until Valid-Input
If In-Buff (II:1) = ' ' or In-Buff (II:1) = low-values
Move x'13' to In-Buff (II:1)
Else
Set Valid-Input to true
End-If
End-Perform
Exit.
End Program FSM.