Exrex is a command line tool and python module that generates all – or random – matching strings to a given regular expression and more. It’s pure python, without external dependencies.
There are regular expressions with infinite matching strings (eg.: [a-z]+
), in these cases it limits the maximum length of the infinite parts.
It uses generators, so the memory usage does not depend on the number of matching strings.
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Features
How Installation Is Done?
To install it, simply run the below command:
$ pip install exrex
Or else you can try the below steps to install it
$ easy_install exrex
How to use it?
If it is as python module
import exrex
exrex.getone(‘(ex)r\1’)
‘exrex’
list(exrex.generate(‘((hai){2}|world!)’))
[‘haihai’, ‘world!’]
exrex.getone(‘\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{4}-[0-9]{4}’)
‘3096-7886-2834-5671’
exrex.getone(‘(1[0-2]|0[1-9])(:[0-5]\d){2} (A|P)M’)
’09:31:40 AM’
exrex.count(‘[01]{0,9}’)
1023
print ‘\n’.join(exrex.generate(‘This is (a (code|cake|test)|an (apple|elf|output)).’))
This is a code.
This is a cake.
This is a test.
This is an apple.
This is an elf.
This is an output.
print exrex.simplify(‘(ab|ac|ad)’)
(a[bcd])
Command line usage ?
exrex –help
usage: exrex.py [-h] [-o FILE] [-l] [-d DELIMITER] [-v] REGEX
exrex – regular expression string generator
positional arguments:
REGEX REGEX string
optional arguments:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-o FILE, –output FILE
Output file – default is STDOUT
-l N, –limit N Max limit for range size – default is 20
-c, –count Count matching strings
-m N, –max-number N Max number of strings – default is -1
-r, –random Returns a random string that matches to the regex
-s, –simplify Simplifies a regular expression
-d DELIMITER, –delimiter DELIMITER
Delimiter – default is \n
-v, –verbose Verbose mode
Examples:
$ exrex ‘[asdfg]’
a
s
d
f
g
$ exrex -r ‘(0[1-9]|1[012])-\d{2}’
09-85
$ exrex ‘[01]{10}’ -c
1024
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