in reply to How to express contents of a file as regex metachars?

I don't have a solution for you. But i'm fascinated by the problem.

So, basically, what you want to do is a (one way/lossy) table-based compression algorithm?

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Re^2: How to express contents of a file as regex metachars?
by dwhite20899 (Friar) on Jun 16, 2012 at 19:46 UTC
    Yes! exactly. I should have described it that way.