From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T02:16:44+09:00
Subject: Re: String generalization

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On 4/6/06, Dominik Bathon <dbatml@gmx.de> wrote:
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> [SNIP]
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> The part that finds the repeating patterns is a bit ugly, but it should
> work. Here are the results:
>
> $ ruby generalize_rx.rb
> 12345 =3D> /\d+/
> ABCDE =3D> /[A-Z]+/
> john.smith@my.super.server.rb =3D> /[a-z]+\.[a-z]+@([a-z]+\.)+[a-z]+/
> 123-45-678-90 =3D> /(\d+\-)+\d+/
> item: =3D> /[a-z]+:/
> Peter, SZINEK =3D> /\w+,\ [A-Z]+/
> http://www.google.com =3D> /[a-z]+:\/\/([a-z]+\.)+[a-z]+/
> jd=A3;d:L348kddd3 =3D> /[a-z]+\243;[a-z]:\w+/


Well that is quite impressive, but I could not figure out why
"12a".you_know_the_name_of_the_method gives /\w+/, it clearly should give
/\d+[a-z]+/, no?

Cheers
Robert

Dominik
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