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Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator - creates scanners/tokenizers from patterns

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Fast Lexical Analyzer, generates Scanners (tokenizers)

Commands

flex

Examples

Generate a C scanner from a flex specification file$ flex input.l
Generate scanner with custom output filename$ flex -o scanner.c input.l
Generate a C++ scanner class$ flex -+ input.l