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Flex lexical analyser
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flex (fast lexical analyzer generator) is a free software alternative to Lex. It is frequently used with the free Bison parser generator. Flex was originally written in C by Vern Paxson around 1987.
The description for flex as given by the flex manual:
- "flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize lexical patterns in text. flex reads the given input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, for a description of a scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions and C code, called rules. flex generates as output a C source file, `lex.yy.c', which defines a routine `yylex()'. This file is compiled and linked with the `-lfl' library to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code..."
A similar lexical scanner for C++ is flex++.
Flex is a non-GNU project, but the GNU project developed the manual for Flex.
- Flex Home Page
- Flex Manual
- Compiler Construction using Flex and Bison - course by Anthony Aaby A romanian rebuild version of this book in pdf format "fb2-press.pdf" or "fb2-printing.pdf" may be downloaded from [1] or directly from [2] or [3].
- Download Win32 binaries of Flex and Bison
- ANSI-C Lex Specification
- JFlex: Fast Scanner Generator for Java