Re: Generate a regex from text

Instead of trying to find regexes to match values, why not instead take the values to some canonical form? If Value A and Value B both transform to some canonical form C1, then they match. CPAN turns up: String::Canonical and String::Normal.

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Re^2: Generate a regex from text by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2017 at 20:36 UTC
this is the sane method	[reply]
Re^2: Generate a regex from text by porg (Novice) on Feb 04, 2017 at 03:30 UTC
This is an intriguing concept. However, I don't understand how this would be better than using regex? isn't regex also 'philosophically' speaking just finding the canonical representation of the data using patterns?	[reply]