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Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator - Default branch

Section: Unix

Added: Mon, Oct 30th 2000 17:39 PDT (7 years, 6 months ago)

Updated: Wed, Feb 22nd 2006 22:03 PDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

About:
Flex is a tool for generating programs that recognize lexical patterns in 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.

Author:
Will Estes [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://flex.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz?download
Tar/BZ2:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.4a.tar.bz2?download

Trove categories: [change]
[Intended Audience] Developers
[License] OSI Approved :: BSD License (original), OSI Approved :: BSD License (revised), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic] Software Development

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

Project admins: [change]
» Will Estes (Owner)

» Rating: 8.17/10.00 (Rank N/A)
» Vitality: 0.00% (Rank 10214)
» Popularity: 8.60% (Rank 297)

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Branches

Branch Version Last release License URLs

Default 2.5.4a 17-Mar-2001 BSD License (revised)

Development 2.5.33 22-Feb-2006 BSD License (revised)

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