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enso-media/reverse-regex
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Convert Regular Expressions into text

0.2(5y ago)319.8k3[1 PRs](https://github.com/enso-media/ReverseRegex/pulls)MITPHPPHP ^7.2 | ^8.0

Since Oct 17Pushed 3y agoCompare

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ReverseRegex
============

[](#reverseregex)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9a4e0aa470badc8e8e7f69db199d3948f5e5f2b8b56cd20dd3297dd73c3d420f/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f69636f6d6566726f6d7468656e65742f5265766572736552656765782e706e67)](https://travis-ci.org/icomefromthenet/ReverseRegex)

Use Regular Expressions to generate text strings can be used in the following situations:

1. Wrting test data for web forms.
2. Writing test data for databases.
3. 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

[](#other-examples)

1. [Australian phone numbers](https://github.com/icomefromthenet/ReverseRegex/blob/master/examples/ausphone.php)
2. [Australian postcodes](https://github.com/icomefromthenet/ReverseRegex/blob/master/examples/auspostcode.php)
3. [Mobile numbers](https://github.com/icomefromthenet/ReverseRegex/blob/master/examples/mobilenumbers.php)

\##Installing

To install use composer

```
{
  "require" : {
	"icomefromthenet/reverse-regex" : "dev-master"
    }
}
```

Writing a Regex
---------------

[](#writing-a-regex)

1. Escape all meta-characters i.e. if you need to escape the character in a regex you will need to escape here.
2. Not all meta-characters are suppported see list below.
3. Use `\X{####}` to specify unicode value use `[\X{####}-\X{####}]` to specify range.
4. Unicdoe `\p` not supported, I could not find a port of [UCD](http://www.unicode.org/ucd/) to php, maybe in the future support be added.
5. Quantifiers are applied to left most group, literal or character class.
6. Beware of the `+` and `*` quantifers they apply a possible maxium number of occurances up to `PHP_INT_MAX`.

### Regex Support

[](#regex-support)

   Example   Description   Resulting String     (abcf)   Support literals this would generate string  `abcf`    \\((abcf)\\)   Escape meta characters as you normally would in a regex  `(abcf)`    \[a-z\]   Character Classes are supported  `a`    a{5}   Quantifiers supported always **last** group or literal or character class  `aaaaa`    a{1,5}   Range Quantifiers supported `aa`    a|b|c   Alternation supported pick one of three at random  `b`    a|(y|d){5}   Groups supported with alternation and quantifiers  `ddddd` or `a` or `yyyyy`      \\d   Digit shorthand equ \[0-9\]  `1`    \\w  word character shorthand equ \[a-zA-Z0-9\_\]  `j`    \\W Non word character shorthand equ \[^a-zA-Z0-9\_\]  `j`    \\s White space shorthand ASCII only  ` `    \\S Non White space shorthand ASCII only  `i`    . Dot all ASCII characters  `$`    \* + ? Short hand quantifiers, recommend not use them       \\X{00FF}\[\\X{00FF}-\\X{00FF}\] Unicode ranges      \\xFF\[\\xFF-\\xFF\]  Hex ranges

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity27

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~301 days

Recently: every ~644 days

Total

11

Last Release

1937d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.1.0.0PHP ^7.1

0.2PHP ^7.2 | ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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