[antlr-interest] Antlr grammar for regular expressions

[srđan bejaković]

I'm trying to write an engine that goes the other way, meaning it generates
strings that conform to a regular expression (for populating data files for
testing).

On 7/31/07, Matt Benson <gudnabrsam at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- srðan bejakoviæ <s.bejakovic at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > does anyone know of an Antlr grammar for parsing
> > (perl or java) regular
> > expressions? I started implementing something like
> > this, but I don't want to
> > (suboptimally) reinvent something that probably
> > already exists. Thanks,
>
> Why would you need to do this?  There are enough regex
> libraries available that I can't imagine why you would
> need to implement your own... ANTLR is cool, but if
> you're already looking for prior art, why is it
> important that it be implemented using ANTLR?
>
> -Matt
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> >
> > Srdan
> >
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