In order to come up with the minterms, you would need a value table. Here is some code to find the variables and the value table: 

use strict;
use warnings;

$"="\t";
my $bool = 'Fred&Teddy&(Fred|Teddy)|(Fred)&(John)';
my @vars = keys %{{ map { $_ => 1 } $bool =~ /\b(\w+)\b/g }};
$bool =~ s/($_)/\$b\{${1}\}/g for @vars;
my $n = @vars;

my %b;
print "@vars\tValue\n";
for (0..2**$n-1) {
    @b{@vars} = split //, sprintf "%0${n}b", $_;
    print "@b{@vars}\t";
    print eval $bool;
    print "\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Optimize a generic boolean expression by hdb
in thread Optimize a generic boolean expression by tsk1979

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