How can I create a regex that will match several similar strings?
Question
I'm looking for a function that can take multiple strings as an input, and create a regex that will match all of them.
For example, let's say the inputs are:
- fun dog
- funny dog
- fun dogs
It should output something like:
/fun(ny)? dogs?/
I was wondering if Levenshtein distance could be used for such purpose, but no clue... what do you think?
1 answers
solution1
0 ACCPTED 2012-05-14 14:36:11
You're not saying which flavor of regex. Perl comes with a thing called Regex::PreSuf which does this sort of thing.
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