RE: what is flex ?

On 27-Mar-99 Àùåóëîâ Àëåêñåé wrote: > What is flex ? > > Pathfinder "Flex" performs essentially the same functions as classic UNIX "lex": it produces C code which serves as a "parser" that can be used to analyse structured input for patterns and tokens, and, for each token, generate

Re: what is flex ?

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > > What is flex ? > Flex is the gnu clone of "lex", one of the original unix lexical analysis > tools. > A decent book on compiler construction could probably explain > it better. "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" by Aho, > Sethi, and Ullm

Re: what is flex ?

> What is flex ? Flex is the gnu clone of "lex", one of the original unix lexical analysis tools. A lexer (that's what you get when you run flex on a flex file) is used to break up input into "tokens", which are the atomic units of programming languages or other specifications. In english, to