diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b0812d5..ea2fb20 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2,41 +2,6 @@
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
 version = 3
 
-[[package]]
-name = "aho-corasick"
-version = "0.7.20"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cc936419f96fa211c1b9166887b38e5e40b19958e5b895be7c1f93adec7071ac"
-dependencies = [
- "memchr",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "memchr"
-version = "2.5.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2dffe52ecf27772e601905b7522cb4ef790d2cc203488bbd0e2fe85fcb74566d"
-
-[[package]]
-name = "regex"
-version = "1.7.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "48aaa5748ba571fb95cd2c85c09f629215d3a6ece942baa100950af03a34f733"
-dependencies = [
- "aho-corasick",
- "memchr",
- "regex-syntax",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "regex-syntax"
-version = "0.6.28"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "456c603be3e8d448b072f410900c09faf164fbce2d480456f50eea6e25f9c848"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "skill-oxide"
 version = "0.1.0"
-dependencies = [
- "regex",
-]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e7b6704..09a537d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,4 +6,3 @@ edition = "2021"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
-regex = "1"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 3770e92..ac84ca8 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,17 +1,8 @@
 use std::{env, fs, io::Read};
-use regex::Regex;
-use states::Tokenizer;
 
-mod states;
 fn main() {
     let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
-    let re = Regex::new(r"((?P<comment>;)|(?P<word>\b\w+\b))").unwrap();
-
     let mut file = fs::File::open(args[1].as_str()).expect("msg");
     let mut data = String::new();
-    file.read_to_string(&mut data).expect("msg");
-
-    let mut tokenizer = Tokenizer::new();
-    tokenizer.read_in(data);
 
 }
diff --git a/src/states.rs b/src/states.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index d1c49df..0000000
--- a/src/states.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub enum CursorState {
-    Comment,
-    List,
-    Token,
-    Literal,
-    Operator
-}
-
-pub struct Token {
-    typ: CursorState,
-    content: Vec<Token>,
-}
-
-pub struct Tokenizer {
-    stateStack: Vec<CursorState>,
-    tokenTree: Vec<Token>,
-}
-
-impl Tokenizer {
-    pub fn new() -> Tokenizer {
-        Tokenizer {
-            stateStack: Vec::new(),
-            tokenTree: Vec::new(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn match_char(&mut self, c: char) {
-        match self.stateStack.last() {
-            None => match c {
-                c if c.is_whitespace() => {}
-                ';' => {
-                    self.stateStack.push(CursorState::Comment);
-                }
-                '(' => {
-                    self.stateStack.push(CursorState::List);
-                }
-                c if c.is_alphanumeric() => {}
-                _ => {
-                    println!("{}", c);
-                    panic!("not a comment, list or symbol ");
-                }
-            },
-            Some(CursorState::Comment) => match c {
-                c if c.is_control() => {
-                    self.stateStack.pop();
-                }
-                c if c.is_alphanumeric() => {}
-                c if c.is_whitespace() => {}
-                _ => {}
-            },
-            Some(CursorState::List) => match c {
-                '(' => {
-                    self.stateStack.push(CursorState::List);
-                }
-                ')' => {
-                    self.stateStack.pop();
-                }
-                c if c.is_alphabetic() => {
-                    self.stateStack.push(CursorState::Token);
-                }
-                c if c.is_numeric() => {
-                    self.stateStack.push(CursorState::Literal);
-                }
-                '"' => {
-                    self.stateStack.push(CursorState::Literal);
-                }
-                _ => {}
-            },
-            Some(CursorState::Token) => match c {
-                c if !c.is_alphanumeric() => {
-                    self.stateStack.pop();
-                    self.match_char(c);
-                }
-                _ => {}
-            },
-            Some(CursorState::Literal) => match c {
-                c if c.is_whitespace() => {
-                    self.stateStack.pop();
-                }
-                '"' => {
-                    self.stateStack.pop();
-                }
-                _ => {}
-            },
-            _ => {}
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn read_in(&mut self, content: String) {
-        for c in content.chars() {
-            self.match_char(c);
-            println!("{} -> {}: {:?}", c, self.stateStack.len(), self.stateStack.last().clone());
-        }
-    }
-}