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Flex - Generates text-scanning programs

Flex 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.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html
Source tarballftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/non-gnu/flex/flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz
Source informationftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/non-gnu/flex/
Version 2.5.31 (devel) released on 1997-07-27
Licensed under BSDAdClause.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available in HTML, Info, ASCII, dvi, PostScript, and TeXinfo formats from http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/manual/
Support contacts

Help List<help-flex@gnu.org> <help-flex-request@gnu.org>
Bug List<bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org> <bug-gnu-utils-request@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • Vern Paxson

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Related programsBison

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-01-10
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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