Enumerating Regular Expressions
James Stroud
jstroud at ucla.edu
Tue May 9 00:51:39 EDT 2006
blair.bethwaite at gmail.com wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
>
>>You mean like re.compile(r'.*') ?
>
>
> No. I mean like:
>
>>>>regex = re.compile(r'a|b')
>>>>regex.enumerate()
>
> a
> b
>
>
You see the difficulty don't you? How will the computer know in advance
that the regex matches only a finite set of possible strings?
James
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James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
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