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This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator.
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flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize
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lexical patterns in text.
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More information about flex as well as the latest official release of
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flex can be found at:
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http://flex.sourceforge.net/
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Bug reports should be submitted using the SourceForge Bug Tracker
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facilities which can be found from flex's SourceForge project page at:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex
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There are several mailing lists available as well:
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flex-announce@lists.sourceforge.net - where posts will be made
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announcing new releases of flex.
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flex-help@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can post questions about
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using flex
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flex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - where you can discuss development of
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flex itself
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Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of
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BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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This file is part of flex.
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This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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Vern Paxson.
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The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant
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to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States
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Department of Energy and the University of California.
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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are met:
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1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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without specific prior written permission.
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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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PURPOSE.
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The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of interest:
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README - This file.
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NEWS - current version number and list of user-visible changes.
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INSTALL - basic installation information.
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ABOUT-NLS - description of internationalization support in flex.
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COPYING - flex's copyright and license.
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doc/ - user documentation.
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examples/ - containing examples of some possible flex scanners and a
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few other things. See the file examples/README for more details.
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TODO - outstanding bug reports, desired features, etc.
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tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details.
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po/ - internationalization support files.
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