/// <summary>Generates up to k random strings accepted by the regex</summary>
public IEnumerable <string> GenerateRandomMembers(int k)
{
for (int i = 0; i < k; i++)
{
// Holds the generated input so far
StringBuilder input_so_far = new();
// Initially there is no previous character
// Here one could also consider previous characters for example for \b, \B, and ^ anchors
// and initialize input_so_far accordingly
uint prevCharKind = CharKind.StartStop;
// This flag is set to false in the unlikely situation that generation ends up in a dead-end
bool generationSucceeded = true;
// Current set of states reached initially contains just the root
List <SymbolicRegexNode <S> > states = new();
states.Add(_root);
// Used for end suffixes
List <string> possible_endings = new();
List <SymbolicRegexNode <S> > nextStates = new();
while (true)
{
Debug.Assert(states.Count > 0);
if (CanBeFinal(states))
{
// Unconditionally final state or end of the input due to \Z anchor for example
if (IsFinal(states) || IsFinal(states, CharKind.Context(prevCharKind, CharKind.StartStop)))
{
possible_endings.Add("");
}
// End of line due to end-of-line anchor
if (IsFinal(states, CharKind.Context(prevCharKind, CharKind.Newline)))
{
possible_endings.Add("\n");
}
// Related to wordborder due to \b or \B
if (IsFinal(states, CharKind.Context(prevCharKind, CharKind.WordLetter)))
{
possible_endings.Add(ChooseChar(_asciiWordCharacters).ToString());
}
// Related to wordborder due to \b or \B
if (IsFinal(states, CharKind.Context(prevCharKind, CharKind.General)))
{
possible_endings.Add(ChooseChar(_asciiNonWordCharacters).ToString());
}
}
// Choose to stop here based on a coin-toss
if (possible_endings.Count > 0 && ChooseRandomlyTrueOrFalse())
{
//Choose some suffix that allows some anchor (if any) to be nullable
input_so_far.Append(Choose(possible_endings));
break;
}
SymbolicRegexNode <S> state = Choose(states);
char c = '\0';
uint cKind = 0;
// Observe that state.MkDerivative() can be a deadend
List <(S, SymbolicRegexNode <S>?, SymbolicRegexNode <S>)> paths = new(state.MkDerivative().EnumeratePaths(_solver.True));
if (paths.Count > 0)
{
(S, SymbolicRegexNode <S>?, SymbolicRegexNode <S>)path = Choose(paths);
// Consider a random path from some random state in states and
// select a random member of the predicate on that path
c = ChooseChar(ToBDD(path.Item1));
// Map the character back into the corresponding character constraint of the solver
S c_pred = _solver.CharConstraint(c);
// Determine the character kind of c
cKind = IsNewline(c_pred) ? CharKind.Newline : (IsWordchar(c_pred) ? CharKind.WordLetter : CharKind.General);
// Construct the combined context of previous and c kind
uint context = CharKind.Context(prevCharKind, cKind);
// Step into the next set of states
nextStates.AddRange(Step(states, c_pred, context));
}
// In the case that there are no next states: stop here
if (nextStates.Count == 0)
{
if (possible_endings.Count > 0)
{
input_so_far.Append(Choose(possible_endings));
}
else
{
// Ending up here is unlikely but possible for example for infeasible patterns such as @"no\bway"
// or due to poor choice of c -- no anchor is enabled -- so this is a deadend
generationSucceeded = false;
}
break;
}
input_so_far.Append(c);
states.Clear();
possible_endings.Clear();
List <SymbolicRegexNode <S> > tmp = states;
states = nextStates;
nextStates = tmp;
prevCharKind = cKind;
}
if (generationSucceeded)
{
yield return(input_so_far.ToString());
}
}
}