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- .name
- flex
- .fullname
- Fast lexical analyzer generator
- .type
- Programmer Tool
- .short
- Fast lexical analyzer generator
- .description
- Flex is a tool for generating scanners, programs which recognized
- 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.
- .version
- 2.4.7
- .author
- Vern Paxson
- Van Jacobson
- Jef Poskanzer
- .requirements
- Amiga binaries require ixemul.library.
- .distribution
- GNU Public License
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@amigalib.com)
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