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0 pointsrussfink3y ago0 comments

Few things are easier to miss than a string that breaks your (nontrivial) regex.

I’d like to see a mathematical estimate of the number of test strings I should generate given some input regex.

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If you cannot enumerate the test cases, then the problem is too complex for a single regex. It's sort of self limiting.

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0 pointsrussfink3y ago0 comments

Few things are easier to miss than a string that breaks your (nontrivial) regex.

I’d like to see a mathematical estimate of the number of test strings I should generate given some input regex.

If you cannot enumerate the test cases, then the problem is too complex for a single regex. It's sort of self limiting.

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