BSD-3-Clause-flex AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Autoconf-exception-generic-3.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Bison-exception-2.2 AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Texinfo-exception AND FSFAP AND FSFUL AND FSFULLR AND FSFULLRWD AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND X11
Build Time
2025-04-02 15:59:24
Build Host
builder-x86-10.inferitos.ru
Summary
A tool for generating scanners (text pattern recognizers)
Repositories
AppStream
Description
The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can
recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular
expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as
output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to
produce an executable. The executable searches through its input for
occurrences of the regular expressions. When a match is found, it
executes the corresponding C code. Flex was designed to work with
both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their
build process.
You should install flex if you are going to use your system for
application development.
