Flex

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Introduction | Get the Software | Documentation
Mailing Lists/Newsgroups | Request an Enhancement | Report a Bug

Introduction to Flex

Flex is a fast lexical analyser generator. It is a tool for generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text. There are many applications for Flex, including writing compilers in conjunction with GNU Bison. Flex is a free implementation of the well known Lex program. It features a Lex compatibility mode, and also provides several new features such as exclusive start conditions.

Downloading Flex

Flex can be found on in the subdirectory /non-gnu/flex/ on your favorite GNU mirror. For other ways to obtain Flex, please read How to get GNU Software

Documentation

Flex documentation can be found at http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html

You may also find more information about Flex by looking at /usr/doc/flex/ or /usr/local/doc/flex/ or by looking at man pages (man flex at the shell prompt) on your system.

Mailing Lists/Newsgroups

There are currently no mailing lists for Flex.

Request an Enhancement

If you would like any new feature to be included in future versions of Flex, please send a request to <help-flex@gnu.org>

Please remember that development of Flex is a volunteer effort, and you can also contribute to its development. For information about contributing to the GNU Project, please read How to help GNU.

Report a Bug

If you think you have found a bug in Flex, then you should send as complete a report as possible to the Flex maintainers. Contact details are provided within the distribution.

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Updated: 29 Apr 2000 neel