| 1 | This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator.
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| 2 |
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| 3 | flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize
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| 4 | lexical patterns in text.
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| 5 |
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| 6 | More information about flex as well as the latest official release of
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| 7 | flex can be found at:
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| 8 |
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| 9 | http://flex.sourceforge.net/
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| 10 |
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| 11 | Of particular interest is the mailing list
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| 12 | flex-announce@lists.sourceforge.net as that is where posts will be made
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| 13 | announcing new releases of flex.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of
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| 16 | BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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| 17 |
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| 18 | This file is part of flex.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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| 21 | Vern Paxson.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant
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| 24 | to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States
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| 25 | Department of Energy and the University of California.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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| 28 | modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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| 29 | are met:
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| 30 |
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| 31 | 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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| 32 | notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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| 33 | 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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| 34 | notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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| 35 | documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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| 38 | may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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| 39 | without specific prior written permission.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
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| 42 | IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
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| 43 | WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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| 44 | PURPOSE.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | Please send bug reports and feedback to flex-help@lists.sourceforge.net.
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| 47 |
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| 48 | The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of interest:
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| 49 |
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| 50 | README - This file.
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| 51 |
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| 52 | NEWS - current version number and list of user-visible changes.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | INSTALL - basic installation information.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | ABOUT-NLS - description of internationalization support in flex.
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| 57 |
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| 58 | COPYING - flex's copyright and license.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | doc/ - user documentation.
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| 61 |
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| 62 | examples/ - containing examples of some possible flex scanners and a
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| 63 | few other things. See the file examples/README for more details.
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| 64 |
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| 65 | TODO - outstanding bug reports, desired features, etc.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details.
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| 68 |
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| 69 | po/ - internationalization support files.
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