Regular expression generator/reducer?

Question

I was posed an interesting question from a colleague for an operational pain point we currently have, and am curious if there\'s anything out there (utility/library/algorith

Answer 1

The Aho-Corasick matching algorithm constructs a finite automaton to match multiple strings. You could convert the automaton to its equivalent regex but it is simpler to use the automaton directly (this is what the algorithm does.)