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Flex

https://github.com/westes/flex
Fast lexical analyser generator

Flex (The Fast Lexical Analyzer) is a tool for generating programs that recognize lexical patterns in text. There are many applications for Flex, including writing compilers in conjunction with GNU Bison. Flex is a free implementation of the well known Lex program. It features a Lex compatibility mode, and also provides several new features such as exclusive start conditions.

Documentation

Can be generated in various formats using the GNU documentation system.

Use help2man to generate the man page.

Download

https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/tag/v2.6.3

version 2.6.3 (stable)
released on 30 December 2016

User level

Advanced

VCS Checkout

git clone git://github.com/westes/flex.git

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Programming-language:C
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:GNU/Hurd
• Use:software-development
• Works-with:text

Related Projects

• Bison
• CPG
• WordNet
• Dbacl
• Dparser

Licensing

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Notes

License

License:BSD AdClause

Verified by

Janet Casey

Verified on

10 January 2003

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
W. L. Estes	Maintainer
Vern Paxson	Contributor

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Developer	Mailing List Info/Archive	http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/flex-announce
Debian (Ref)		https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flex
Support	Mailing List Info/Archive	http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/flex-help
Python (Ref)		https://pypi.org/project/flex
Developer	VCS Repository Webview	https://github.com/westes/flex
Ruby (Ref)		https://rubygems.org/gems/flex
Developer	Download	https://github.com/westes/flex/releases
Developer	Bug Tracking	https://github.com/westes/flex/issues
History	Homepage	https://sourceforge.net/projects/flex/

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to build	gcc
Required to use	gettext for i18n support
Required to build	bash
Required to use	help2man to generate the flex man page
Required to build	m4
Required to use	tar, gzip, etc. for packaging of the source distribution
Required to use	bison to generate parse.c from parse.y
Required to use	texinfo to build and test the flex manual
Required to use	autoconf for handling the build system
Required to use	indent for indenting the flex source the way we want it done
Required to use	automake for Makefile generation

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 16 April 2018.

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