> Apologies for tooting my own horn, but I have released Regexp::Assemble,
> which does much the same thing, but has slightly different behaviour, it
> merges common tails as well: fish, flash -> f(la|i)sh. The above-cited
> pattern becomes:
>
> fla(?:t(?:ulent)?|bby|sh)
Toot toot. Regex::PreSuf has been doing things like that since April
2000 and it does character classes and anychars, too :-) Though I'm
the first to admit that my module probably has various bugs and
inefficiencies, I haven't been paying much attention to it lately.
foobar fooxar foozap -> foo(?:zap|[bx]ar)
foobar foo.ar fooxar -> foo.ar # with anychar => 1
Regexp::Assemble looks definitely cooler and much more general-purpose.
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