Generate matching strings randomly instead of exhaustively #14
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This is not a serious pull request, but the idea might be of interest and other people might want this feature.
Generating strings exhaustively may take a long time if all one desires is a random set of matching strings.
This patch:
getRandomStrings
method that selects transitions and transition characters randomly to reduce the set of generated strings.mvn package
produces a jar that can be executed to generate random strings up to the requested length.For example, to generate 10 strings for the regex
/abc[0-9]+/
with 0 probability of "excessive" exploration: