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Discussion on: VerbalExpressions - RegularExpression made easy

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Nick Karnik

I'm very comfortable with Regex and love it, but I still think this lib is brilliant! What prompted you to start this project? When was it first released?

I have a project on my list to work on where I give it a set of strings and it generates the regular expression automatically.

I think a cool feature for this library would be to be able to reuse a set of existing expressions that others write.

Good work!

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Felix

Oh I am not behind the project; you can find the detail of VerbalExpressions at github.com/VerbalExpressions

I only developed the online tool verbalregex.com which wrapped JSVerbalExpressions for easy writing and testing the VerbalExpressions.

Anyways, can you share some ideas about the algorithm for generating regex from a set of strings??? It sounds like the appliance of some Machine Learning algorithms.