我会通过为该语言构建最小确定性有限自动机来做到这一点。如果您从正则表达式开始,这可以通过 Thompson 构造自动完成,然后是子集构造和最小化。例如,请参阅此说明。
有了 DFA,您可以使用以下算法:
Let P = { < START, [""] > } be a set of pairs <State, list of strings>
for n = 0, 1, ... Max
  Let P' = {} be a new set 
  while P is not empty 
    Remove the pair <s, L> from P 
    For each transition s -- c --> t in alpha order of c
      if t is an accepting state,
          output l + c for each string l in L
      put <t, L + c> in P' (** i.e. append c to each string in L)
  end
  Set P = P'
end
请注意,标记的步骤**必须是真正的集合插入,因为很容易出现重复项。
这是一个核心算法。P可以随着输出长度呈指数增长,但这只是跟踪未来输出字符串的所有可能性的代价。您提到的顺序/大小/空间限制可以通过在列表中保持排序顺序L并在达到资源限制时切断搜索来确保。
编辑
这是一个玩具 Java 示例,我在其中硬编码了带有可选减号的简单二进制浮点文字的 DFA。这使用与上面的伪代码略有不同的方案来获得严格的输出排序顺序并适应字符范围。
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.TreeSet;
public class Test{
    public static class DFA {
        public static class Transition  {
            final int to;
            final char lo, hi; // Character range.
            public Transition(int to, char lo, char hi) {
                this.to = to;
                this.lo = lo;
                this.hi = hi;
            }
            public Transition(int to, char ch) {
                this(to, ch, ch);
            }
        }
        // transitions[i] is a vector of transitions from state i.
        final Transition [] [] transitions;
        // accepting[i] is true iff state i is accepting
        final boolean [] accepting;
        // Make a fresh immutable DFA.
        public DFA(Transition [] [] transitions, boolean [] accepting) {
            this.transitions = transitions;
            this.accepting = accepting;
        }
        // A pair is a DFA state number and the input string read to get there.
        private static class Pair {
            final int at;
            final String s;
            Pair(int at, String s) {
                this.at = at;
                this.s = s;
            }
        }
        // Compare pairs ignoring `at` states, since 
        // they are equal iff the strings are equal.
        private Comparator<Pair> emitOrder = new Comparator<Pair>() {
            @Override
            public int compare(Pair a, Pair b) {
                return a.s.compareTo(b.s);
            }
        };
        // Emit all strings accepted by the DFA of given max length.
        // Output is in sorted order.
        void emit(int maxLength) {
            TreeSet<Pair> pairs = new TreeSet<Pair>(emitOrder);
            pairs.add(new Pair(0, ""));
            for (int len = 0; len <= maxLength; ++len) {
                TreeSet<Pair> newPairs = new TreeSet<Pair>(emitOrder);
                while (!pairs.isEmpty()) {
                    Pair pair = pairs.pollFirst();
                    for (Transition x : transitions[pair.at]) {
                        for (char ch = x.lo; ch <= x.hi; ch++) {
                            String s = pair.s + ch;
                            if (newPairs.add(new Pair(x.to, s)) && accepting[x.to]) {
                                System.out.println(s);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                pairs = newPairs;
            }
        }
    }
    // Emit with a little DFA for floating point numbers.
    public void run() {
        DFA.Transition [] [] transitions = {
            {   // From 0
                new DFA.Transition(1, '-'),
                new DFA.Transition(2, '.'),
                new DFA.Transition(3, '0', '1'),
            },
            {   // From 1
                new DFA.Transition(2, '.'),
                new DFA.Transition(3, '0', '1'),
            },
            {   // From 2
                new DFA.Transition(4, '0', '1'),
            },
            {   // From 3
                new DFA.Transition(3, '0', '1'),
                new DFA.Transition(4, '.'),
            },
            {   // From 4
                new DFA.Transition(4, '0', '1'),
            }  
        };
        boolean [] accepting = { false, false, false, true, true };
        new DFA(transitions, accepting).emit(4);
    }
    public static void main (String [] args) {
        new Test().run();
    }
}