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- @@@STARTPACK(flex;fast lexical analyzer generator)
-
- <P>
- 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.
- </P>
-
- @@@UW2DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/devtools/)
- @@@OSR5DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/devtools/flex/)
- @@@SOURCE(ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/)
- @@@ENDPACK
-
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