Package: flex
Version: 2.5.4a-24
Section: devel
Priority: standard
Architecture: arm
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Recommends: c-compiler
Suggests: bison
Installed-Size: 504
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Description: A fast lexical analyzer generator.
 flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical
 patterns in text. flex reads the given input files for a description of a
 scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular
 expressions and C code, called rules. flex generates as output a C source
 file, lex.yy.c, which defines a routine yylex().  This file is compiled
 and linked with the -lfl library to produce an executable. When the
 executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular
 expressions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.
 .
 This product includes software developed by the University of California,
 Berkeley and its contributors. The upstream source code can be found at
 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/non-gnu/flex/
