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Re:Generate Regex from Examples by riffraff on Saturday July 25, 2015 @08:26AM (#9947391)
The scholarly articles behind this:

Automatic Generation of Regular Expressions from Examples with Genetic Programming[0]

Automatic String Replace by Examples [1]

[0] http://machinelearning.inginf.units.it/publications/internat...

[1] http://machinelearning.inginf.units.it/publications/internat...

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Re:Generate Regex from Examples by thomasahle on Saturday July 25, 2015 @04:22PM (#9948866)
A nice discussion on the hardness of finding regular expressions from examples: http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/on-learning-regular... . One interesting point: A good such system could easily break RSA.
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