Regex to String generation

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Published on 2014-06-08T15:40:49Z Indexed on 2014/06/09 21:39 UTC
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Let's say that we have a regex and an index i , if we suppose that the set of string that match our regex are sorted in a lexicographical order, how could we get the i element of this list ?

Edit : I added this simple example for more explanation :

input :

regex="[a-c]{1,2}";
index=4;

in this case the ordered list of string that matches this regex contains those elements :

a
aa
ab
ac
b
ba
bb
bc
c
ca
cb
cc

output :

the 4th element which is ac

ps: it's known that the string list that match the regex have infinite element, this doesn't have an impact on the proccess of extracting the element in the given index.

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