regular expression example generator

[Skip Montanaro]

    John> I have a faint recollection of hearing somewhere that someone for
    John> some language had written some software which took a regular
    John> expression and generated for you the types of things that would
    John> match it.

I've never heard of such a beast, though I suppose if something like this
existed it would be more likely to live in the Perl half of the universe.
That's okay, since the re module's re syntax is (or should be) a proper
subset of Perl's.  I'd ask over there.

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