newxml/appendixa/flex.xml

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   6 <sect1 id="aa-flex" xreflabel="Flex">
   7 <title>Flex</title>
   8 <?dbhtml filename="flex.html"?>
   9
  10 <para>For installation instructions see <xref linkend="ch06-flex"/>.</para>
  11
  12 <sect2><title>Official Download Location</title>
  13
  14 <literallayout>Flex (&flex-version;):
  15 <ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/flex/"/></literallayout>
  16 </sect2>
  17
  18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="flex-contents.xml"/>
  19
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  22 <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
  23
  24 <para><command>flex</command> is a tool for generating programs that
  25 recognize patterns in text. Pattern recognition is useful in many applications.
  26 From a set of rules on what to look for flex makes a program that looks for
  27 those patterns. The reason to use flex is that it is much easier to specify
  28 the rules for than to write the actual pattern-finding program.</para>
  29
  30 <para><command>flex++</command> invokes a version of flex that is used
  31 exclusively for C++ scanners.</para>
  32
  33 <para><command>libfl.a</command> is the flex library.</para>
  34
  35 </sect2>
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  39 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="flex-deps.xml"/>
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  43 </sect1>