flex
Port variant standard
Summary Fast lexical analyzer generator
Package version 2.6.4_2
Homepage https://github.com/westes/flex
Keywords textproc
Maintainer nobody
License BSD2CLAUSE
Other variants ravensys
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Last modified 08 OCT 2023, 15:37:52 UTC
Port created 05 APR 2017, 03:48:23 UTC
Subpackage Descriptions
complete This is the flex-standard metapackage. It pulls in all subpackages of flex-standard.
primary Flex is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text. The flex program reads user-specified input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, 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 a C source file named, "lex.yy.c", which defines the function yylex(). The file "lex.yy.c" can be compiled and linked to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of text matching the regular expressions for each rule. Whenever it finds a match, it executes the corresponding C code.
examples This is the examples subpackage of the flex-standard port.
nls This is the native language support subpackage of the flex-standard port.
Configuration Switches (platform-specific settings discarded)
Package Dependencies by Type
Build (only) help2man:single:standard
gmake:primary:standard
gettext:dev:standard
gettext:bldtools:standard
gettext:tools:standard
gettext:solinks:standard
bison:primary:standard
Build and Runtime m4:primary:standard
gettext:primary:standard
Runtime (only) indexinfo:single:standard (primary subpackage)
Download groups
main https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/download/v2.6.4/
Distribution File Information
e87aae032bf07c26f85ac0ed3250998c37621d95f8bd748b31f15b33c45ee995 1419096 flex-2.6.4.tar.gz
Ports that require flex:standard
libpcap:standard Network packet capture library
libwapcaplet:standard String internment library
nfdump:standard Tools to collect and process netflow data