On: Generate Regex from Examples

[riffraff]

The scholarly articles behind this:

Automatic Generation of Regular Expressions from Examples with Genetic Programming[0]

Automatic String Replace by Examples [1]

[0] http://machinelearning.inginf.units.it/publications/internat...

[1] http://machinelearning.inginf.units.it/publications/internat...

[thomasahle → riffraff]

A nice discussion on the hardness of finding regular expressions from examples: http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/on-learning-regular... . One interesting point: A good such system could easily break RSA.