Icon of program: Flex for Linux

Flex for Linux

Download now

Used Flex for Linux for Linux? Share your experience and help other users.

Developer’s Description

By The Flex Project
Generating scanners which recognizes lexical patterns in text.
Flex for Linux is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text. The flex program reads user-specified input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, 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 a C source file named, "lex.yy.c", which defines the function yylex(). The file "lex.yy.c" can be compiled and linked to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of text matching the regular expressions for each rule. Whenever it finds a match, it executes the corresponding C code.
Icon of program: Flex for Linux

Flex for Linux

Download now

Used Flex for Linux for Linux? Share your experience and help other users.

Explore More

Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.5.35
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Linux
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
94
Downloads Last Week
0
Report Software

Program available in other languages

Last Updated

Download.com
Your review for Flex for Linux