LEX
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 14, 1986
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NAME
lex - generator of lexical analysis programs
SYNOPSIS
lex
[
-tvfn
] [ file ] ...
DESCRIPTION
Lex
generates programs to be used in simple lexical analysis of text.
The input
files
(standard input default) contain regular expressions
to be searched for, and actions written in C to be executed when
expressions are found.
A C source program, 'lex.yy.c' is generated, to be compiled thus:
-
cc lex.yy.c -ll
This program, when run, copies unrecognized portions of
the input to the output, and executes the associated
C action for each regular expression that is recognized.
The options have the following meanings.
- -t
-
Place the result on the standard output instead of in file "lex.yy.c".
- -v
-
Print a one-line summary of statistics of the generated analyzer.
- -n
-
Opposite of
-v;
-n
is default.
- -f
-
"Faster" compilation: don't bother to pack
the resulting tables; limited to small programs.
EXAMPLE
-
lex lexcommands
would draw
lex
instructions from the file
lexcommands,
and place the output in
lex.yy.c
-
%%
[A-Z] putchar(yytext[0]+'a'-'A');
[ ]+$ ;
[ ]+ putchar(' ');
is an example of a
lex
program that would be put into a
lex
command file. This program converts upper case to lower,
removes blanks at the end of lines,
and replaces multiple blanks by single blanks.
SEE ALSO
yacc(1), sed(1)
M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt,
LEX - Lexical Analyzer Generator
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