Re:Show HN: RegEx Face Off – Beat your friends with regular ...
by ygra on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:32AM
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> Write a function that, given two arrays of words, return the best regex.
I've actually done that with code-golf in the past. I needed a regex shorter than n that would match what I wanted it to match, so I generated valid regexes up to n length and tested them. A bit brute-force, but eventually saved me one character in the program.
I've actually done that with code-golf in the past. I needed a regex shorter than n that would match what I wanted it to match, so I generated valid regexes up to n length and tested them. A bit brute-force, but eventually saved me one character in the program.