Regex Puzzle
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Regex Puzzle
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#2Wow, finally a crossword I have a chance at!
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#3Well, there is https://regexcrossword.com/
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#4Anyone know a decent android app for these? the MIT one has the most insane and broken scrolling functionality it's shocking.
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#5Well, there is https://regexcrossword.com/
Nice!
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#6Worth doing this by hand to exercise your knowledge of regular expressions. My solution (SPOILER): http://imgur.com/a/9iK9J
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#7I know that there are problems to do with regex matching that are NP-hard. So I'm wondering if it is possible to attack this puzzle using an algorithm that simplifies the individual regexes using knowledge of the regexes that that they interact with?
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#8If you want a challenge, try this one: http://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/TWikiPresentation2013x03x07/reg...
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#9This BBC report refers to a puzzle released by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre [1], as part of an online recruitment effort.
[1] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/take-our-regex-crossword-challe...
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#10Worth doing this by hand to exercise your knowledge of regular expressions. My solution (SPOILER): http://imgur.com/a/9iK9J
Well, thanks. I tried to cheat with https://github.com/blukat29/regex-crossword-solver and got hit with lex parsing errors! My limited python and 5 minute effort resulted in failure!
At least I got to read the message though :-)