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Flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical patterns in text. It reads the given input files 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.
Home Page: http://lex.sourceforge.net/
Interface: Command Line
Associated Programs
bison A parser generator that is compatible with YACC
build-essential Informational list of build-essential packages
flex-doc Documentation for flex (a fast lexical analyzer generator).
GNU C Compiler GNU C compiler
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 2.5.35-10 2.5.35-10
testing 2.5.35-10.1 2.5.35-10.1
sid 2.5.35-10.1 2.5.35-10.1

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 2.5.34-2.1 2.5.34-2.1
lucid 2.5.35-9 2.5.35-9
oneiric 2.5.35-10ubuntu1 2.5.35-10ubuntu1
precise 2.5.35-10ubuntu3 2.5.35-10ubuntu3

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Available rpm Repositories
OpenSUSE 32-bit 64-bit
10.1 2.5.31-16 2.5.31-16
11.0 2.5.35-18.1 2.5.35-18.1

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