String generation
In computer science, string generation is the process of creating a set of strings from a collection of rules. This is an opposite process to that of parsing, which recognises a string based on some collection of rules.
Applications of string generation include test data generation, Captchas and random essay generation.
Generation methods
Methods for generating strings include:
- While a deterministic finite automaton is often used to recognize strings it can easily be changed to generate strings.
Unsolved problems
Unsolved problems in string generation include:
Note; It is an undecidable problem to decide whether a given string can be generated by a given W-grammar.
See also
- Pretty printing – another process often considered the dual of parsing.
External links
- DGL -- Data Generation Language an apparently general facility for addressing this problem
- Eli Benderski blog with a demo in Python
- Bruce McKenzie paper on a general algorithm
- Generate strings matching a regular expression
- Generate strings from a yacc grammar
- comp.compilers discussion
- random essay random essay
- Generate random C programs
- Generate random string using python
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