ilario-pierbattista / reverse-regex
Convert Regular Expressions into text, for testing. Fork of icomefromthenet/reverse-regex
0.4.0
2023-11-10 13:57 UTC
Requires
- php: ^7.4 | ^8
- doctrine/collections: ^1.6.5
- doctrine/lexer: ^1.2.1 || ^2
- symfony/polyfill-mbstring: ^1.20.0
Requires (Dev)
- phpunit/phpunit: ^9
Conflicts
README
This is a fork of https://github.com/icomefromthenet/ReverseRegex (that provides
icomefromthenet/reverse-regex
).
Use Regular Expressions to generate text strings can be used in the following situations:
- Wrting test data for web forms.
- Writing test data for databases.
- Generating test data for regular expressions.
##Example
use ReverseRegex\Lexer; use ReverseRegex\Random\SimpleRandom; use ReverseRegex\Parser; use ReverseRegex\Generator\Scope; # load composer require "vendor/autoload.php"; $lexer = new Lexer('[a-z]{10}'); $gen = new SimpleRandom(10007); $result = ''; $parser = new Parser($lexer,new Scope(),new Scope()); $parser->parse()->getResult()->generate($result,$gen); echo $result;
Produces
jmceohykoa
aclohnotga
jqegzuklcv
ixdbpbgpkl
kcyrxqqfyw
jcxsjrtrqb
kvaczmawlz
itwrowxfxh
auinmymonl
dujyzuhoag
vaygybwkfm
Other examples
##Installing
To install use composer
composer require ilario-pierbattista/reverse-regex
Writing a Regex
- Escape all meta-characters i.e. if you need to escape the character in a regex you will need to escape here.
- Not all meta-characters are suppported see list below.
- Use
\X{####}
to specify unicode value use[\X{####}-\X{####}]
to specify range. - Unicdoe
\p
not supported, I could not find a port of UCD to php, maybe in the future support be added. - Quantifiers are applied to left most group, literal or character class.
- Beware of the
+
and*
quantifers they apply a possible maxium number of occurances up toPHP_INT_MAX
.