Flex - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) Flex Introduction | Get the Software | Documentation Mailing Lists/Newsgroups | Request an Enhancement | Report a Bug Introduction to Flex Flex is a fast lexical analyser generator. It is a tool for generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text. There are many applications for Flex, including writing compilers in conjunction with GNU Bison. Flex is a free implementation of the well known Lex program. It features a Lex compatibility mode, and also provides several new features such as exclusive start conditions. Downloading Flex Flex can be found on in the subdirectory /non-gnu/flex/ on your favorite GNU mirror. For other ways to obtain Flex, please read How to get GNU Software Documentation Flex documentation can be found at http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html You may also find more information about Flex by looking at /usr/doc/flex/ or /usr/local/doc/flex/ or by looking at man pages (man flex at the shell prompt) on your system. Mailing Lists/Newsgroups There are currently no mailing lists for Flex. Request an Enhancement If you would like any new feature to be included in future versions of Flex, please send a request to <help-flex@gnu.org> Please remember that development of Flex is a volunteer effort, and you can also contribute to its development. For information about contributing to the GNU Project, please read How to help GNU. Report a Bug If you think you have found a bug in Flex, then you should send as complete a report as possible to the Flex maintainers. Contact details are provided within the distribution. Return to GNU's home page. Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to gnu@gnu.org. There are also other ways to contact the FSF. Please send comments on these web pages to webmasters@gnu.org, send other questions to gnu@gnu.org. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Updated: 29 Apr 2000 neel