Re: Regular expression to English translation

There was a thread here a while ago about that, called something like "list of strings that match a regular expression" but I can't find it by searching, annoyingly.

Of course with any use of star in regular expressions, the number of matches is infinite, right?

($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
 =~y~b-v~a-z~s;                             print
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Re: Re: Regular expression to English translation by Wassercrats (Initiate) on Nov 28, 2003 at 02:22 UTC
Infinitely long phrases are one of my concerns with Parse::RandGen, but I might be able to do something about that. I'd really like a module that would handle a regex like `/Hello\s{1,3}world.*/` by outputting: `Hello world [and any text that follows] Hello world [and any text that follows] Hello world [and any text that follows]` [download] Kind of a compromise between YAPE::Regex::Explain and Parse::RandGen. Then, I would just eliminate the phrases with multiple spaces and explain in a footnote that multiple spaces between words would match. I guess I have very specialized needs and I expect to have to customize the modules.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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by Wassercrats (Initiate) on Nov 28, 2003 at 02:22 UTC

really

/Hello\s{1,3}world.*/

Hello world [and any text that follows]
Hello  world [and any text that follows]
Hello   world [and any text that follows]
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Kind of a compromise between YAPE::Regex::Explain and Parse::RandGen. Then, I would just eliminate the phrases with multiple spaces and explain in a footnote that multiple spaces between words would match. I guess I have very specialized needs and I expect to have to customize the modules.

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