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

An automatic generator for regular expression is available here. The tool has a web interface and uses Genetic Programming to generate regexes from a set of few examples: you can choose between a syntax ready for Java or JavaScript regex engines. It has been developed by our research group and has been presented at GECCO 2012 conference.