I need to do a lot of string parsing before I can do the real work in
a program. Someone mentioned flex, but I can't seem to find a decent
tutorial.  Anyone have any good sites? Thanks.

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"fed" <ilpavox@gmail.com> writes:

> I need to do a lot of string parsing before I can do the real work in
> a program. Someone mentioned flex, but I can't seem to find a decent
> tutorial.  Anyone have any good sites? Thanks.

GNU flex comes with a 48 pages manual.  We keep a copy under our
"local documentation" site, http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/localdoc.html
(with about other 200 manuals of free software).  grep for 'flex'.

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Maurizio Loreti <mlo@foobar.it> wrote:
> "fed" <ilpavox@gmail.com> writes:
 
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> GNU flex comes with a 48 pages manual.  We keep a copy under our

flex is not part of the GNU project (as noted here and other places):

http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/

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Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:

> flex is not part of the GNU project (as noted here and other places):
> 	http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/

hmm - for the record, an earlier version of that page made it easier to
see that flex is non-GNU (the oblique remark about "non-GNU implementation"
is less truthful than I'd prefer).

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