Is it possible for a computer to “learn” a regular expression by user-provided examples?

Yes, it is possible, we can generate regexes from examples (text -> desired extractions). This is a working online tool which does the job: http://regex.inginf.units.it/ Regex Generator++ online tool generates a regex from provided examples using a GP search algorithm. The GP algorithm is driven by a multiobjective fitness which leads to higher performance and … Read more

What is the point of interfaces in PHP?

The entire point of interfaces is to give you the flexibility to have your class be forced to implement multiple interfaces, but still not allow multiple inheritance. The issues with inheriting from multiple classes are many and varied and the wikipedia page on it sums them up pretty well. Interfaces are a compromise. Most of … Read more

What’s “P=NP?”, and why is it such a famous question? [closed]

P stands for polynomial time. NP stands for non-deterministic polynomial time. Definitions: Polynomial time means that the complexity of the algorithm is O(n^k), where n is the size of your data (e. g. number of elements in a list to be sorted), and k is a constant. Complexity is time measured in the number of … Read more

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