How do I generate text matching a regular expression from a regular expression?

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Yup, you read that right. I needs something that is capable of generating random text from a regular expression. So the text should be random, but be matched by the regular expression. It seems it doesn't exist, but I could be wrong.

Just a an example: that library would be capable of taking '[ab]*c' as input, and generate samples such as:

abc
abbbc
bac

etc.

Update: I created something myself: Xeger. Check out http://code.google.com/p/xeger/.

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