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-__F
__ast __l__exical __a__nalyzer __g__enerator
+An [Acronym] for
__f
__ast __l__exical __a__nalyzer __g__enerator.
[Flex] is used to generate [C] programs that perform pattern matching on text. It produces a single __lex.yy.c__ file which defines a single __yylex()__ function, which can compiled and linked with __libfl__ to produce an executable that analyzes its input for occurrences of regular expresÂsions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the correspondÂing C code.
It is usually used in conjunction with [Bison]. The [Flex] code then passes the tokens it finds to the [Yacc] style parser generated by [Bison].
