RegexGenerator

I thought you meant generate strings from a regex. But you actually want to infer a regex from a set of example strings. I am unaffiliated with the authors of the following paper. I only think that it might act a gateway in aiding you in finding other relevant literature if its implementation does not turn out to be useful. > Inference of Regular Expressions for Text Extraction from Examples (Alberto Bartoli, Andrea De Lorenzo, Eric Medvet, and Fabiano Tarlao) 2016 doi:10.1109/TKDE.2016.2515587 https://www.human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/bartol... Which has a GPLv3 implementation in Java: https://github.com/MaLeLabTs/RegexGenerator It also happens to be on the first Google search result page for: > infer a regex from a set of strings

Source code here: https://github.com/MaLeLabTs/RegexGenerator

This Regex Generator site works as follows, you provide text examples by highlighting the strings to extract; the strings to not extract are the surrounding text. The Regex Generator finds out a regular expression that complies with provided examples and performs the desired text extraction task. This is a research project of the Machine Learning Lab http://machinelearning.inginf.units.it/ The engine has also been released opensource here: https://github.com/MaLeLabTs/RegexGenerator

hi guys, thank you for your interest in our system of automatic generation of regex. we are experiencing some trouble with connectivity due to the... unexpected popularity :) we are working to solve this, but we are a very small research group with limited resources. meanwhile, if you are interested in the details of our algorithm take a look at the source code hosted here: https://github.com/MaLeLabTs/RegexGenerator

I was looking for something similar years ago. Very interesting indeed. I have done few searches and I find out that they have released the engine code https://github.com/MaLeLabTs/RegexGenerator