summary:

A fast lexical analyzer generator

description:

The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which cand recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The executable searches through its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. When a match is found, it executes the corresponding C code. Flex was designed to work with both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build processx.

categories:

Devel

depends:

cygwin, libintl8

build_rdepends:

source package:

flex

maintainer(s):

Marco Atzeri (Use the mailing list to report bugs or ask questions. Do not contact the maintainer(s) directly.)