Package: flex
Version: 2.5.33-11
Section: devel
Priority: standard
Architecture: armel
Pre-Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5.0-1), m4
Recommends: gcc | c-compiler
Suggests: bison
Installed-Size: 1060
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.
 .
 The behaviour of Flex has undergone a major change since version
 2.5.4a; Flex scanners are now reentrant, you may have multiple
 scanners in the same program with differing sets of defaults, and
 they play nicer with modern C and C++ compilers. The Flip side is
 that Flex no longer conforms to the POSIX lex behaviour, and the
 scanners require conforming implementations when flex is used in ANSI
 C mode. The package flex-old provides the older behaviour.
 .
 This product includes software developed by the University of California,
 Berkeley and its contributors. The upstream source code can be found at
 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.33.tar.bz2?download
 The project web page is at http://flex.sf.net/
