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flex: Flex
flex:
flex: Flex is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a
flex: tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text. The
flex: flex program reads user-specified input files, or its standard input if
flex: no file names are given, for a description of a scanner to generate. The
flex: description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions and C code,
flex: called rules.
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