https://github.com/westes/flex

The Fast Lexical Analyzer - scanner generator for lexing in C and C++
https://github.com/westes/flex

c flex lexer lexer-generator

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The Fast Lexical Analyzer - scanner generator for lexing in C and C++

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/westes/flex
• Owner: westes
• License: other
• Created: 2013-11-19T10:19:33.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-14T14:59:04.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-19T12:08:56.647Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: c, flex, lexer, lexer-generator
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 4.69 MB
• Stars: 3,598
• Watchers: 89
• Forks: 538
• Open Issues: 150
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: NEWS
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: COPYING
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

        
[![Build Status](https://github.com/westes/flex/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/westes/flex/actions/workflows/build.yml)

This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator.

flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize

lexical patterns in text.

The flex codebase is kept in

[Git on GitHub.](https://github.com/westes/flex) Source releases of flex with some intermediate files already built can be found on [the github releases page.](https://github.com/westes/flex/releases)

Use GitHub's [issues](https://github.com/westes/flex/issues) and

[pull request](https://github.com/westes/flex) features to file bugs

and submit patches.

There are several mailing lists available as well:

* [email protected] - where posts will be made

  announcing new releases of flex.

* [email protected] - where you can post questions about

  using flex

* [email protected] - where you can discuss development

  of flex itself

Find information on subscribing to the mailing lists or search in the

archive at: https://sourceforge.net/p/flex/mailman/

Note: Posting is only allowed from addresses that are subscribed to

the lists.

The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of

interest:

* README.md - This file.

* NEWS - current version number and list of user-visible changes.

* INSTALL.md - basic installation information.

* ABOUT-NLS - description of internationalization support in flex.

* COPYING - flex's copyright and license.

* doc/ - user documentation.

* examples/ - containing examples of some possible flex scanners and a

              few other things. See the file examples/README for more

              details.

* tests/ - regression tests. See tests/README for details.

* po/ - internationalization support files.

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This file is part of flex.

This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by

Vern Paxson.

The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant

to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States

Department of Energy and the University of California.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions

are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright

   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright

   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the

   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors

may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software

without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED

WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR

PURPOSE.