minimalist regular expression

[Trent Mick]

[borges2003xx at yahoo.it wrote]
> Exists some tool, programs or some able to compute the minimal regular
> expression, namely ,taking a series of regular exoression, the minimal
> one that makes the same matching?

    def get_minimal_regex(*regexes):
        return ".*"

:)  Or, slightly less smart-ass-y:

    def get_not_really_minimal_regex(*regexes):
        return "(" + "|".join(regexes) + ")"

Trent

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