AutoRegex

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RegEx Generator

This is a special case of the general problem of program synthesis[1][2][3][4], where the search space of possible programs are all regex strings and the seed driving the synthesis is Input-Output examples. There's research [5][6] as well as practical tools [7][8][9]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_synthesis [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/program-synthesis/ [3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1836089.1836091 [4] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2015.0403 [5] https://cs.stanford.edu/~minalee/pdf/gpce2016-alpharegex.pdf [6] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261794574_Automatic_Synthesis_of_Regular_Expressions_from_Examples [7] https://regex-generator.olafneumann.org/ [8] http://regex.inginf.units.it/extract/ [9] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6219790/need-a-regex-tool-that-suggests-expressions-based-on-selected-text.

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regular expressions 101

You can always use tools like Regex101[0] to verify if they actually work or not. I have tried a few generated by the AI, and it seems to do the job most of the time. [0]: https://regex101.com/.

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