Generating strings from regular expressions

KSG <kgatlin@cs.ucsd.edu>
24 May 1999 01:40:10 -0400

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From: KSG <kgatlin@cs.ucsd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.theory
Date: 24 May 1999 01:40:10 -0400
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Keywords: lex, question, comment

Does anyone know of any code or an algorithm that does the following:

input: a regular expression, R, and an integer k.
output: a list of all strings of length k that are in R

I've thought about building the NFA and traversing that, but I'm not
sure if building the NFA is really necessary. Is there a simpler way?

Thanks,

KSG
[Simpler? Sure. Enumerate all the strings of length k, run them through
the RE matcher of your choice, and list the one that match. But I will
admit that for large k it could be kind of slow. -John]

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