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in thread Regular expression to English translation

My fear is that that's the best that could be done. I haven't completely thought through how practical what I want is, but I would need something more like a list of expressions that match with no reference to regex code.
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Re: Re: Re: Regular expression to English translation
by broquaint (Abbot) on Nov 27, 2003 at 13:28 UTC
    Then the likes of Parse::RandGen are probably worth looking at. Here's some sample usage 
    use Parse::RandGen;

my $p = Parse::RandGen::Regexp->new(qr/a(b|c)d?/);

print $p->pick for 1 ..5

__output__

abd
ab
ac
acd
abd

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    broquaint

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      That looks promising! Unfortunately, that particular Parse:: module isn't available on my web host's server, and it looks like ActivePerl doesn't come with any Parse:: modules. I might be able to get it installed on one or the other though. I'll take a closer look when I get a chance and am fully awake. Thanks
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Re: x3 Regular expression to English translation
by bsb (Priest) on Nov 28, 2003 at 03:41 UTC
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