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* flex: (flex).      Fast lexical analyzer generator (lex replacement).
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   The flex manual is placed under the same licensing conditions as the
rest of flex:

   Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012 The
Flex Project.

   Copyright (C) 1990, 1997 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.

   This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by Vern
Paxson.

   The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant to
contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States Department of
Energy and the University of California.

   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

  1.  Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
     documentation and/or other materials provided with the
     distribution.

   Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
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MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


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Node: Introduction9519
Node: Simple Examples10347
Node: Format13634
Node: Definitions Section14047
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Node: Rules Section16373
Node: User Code Section17530
Node: Comments in the Input17968
Node: Patterns19335
Ref: case and character ranges26159
Node: Matching30170
Node: Actions33454
Node: Generated Scanner42423
Node: Start Conditions47438
Node: Multiple Input Buffers57975
Ref: Scanning Strings64511
Node: EOF66141
Node: Misc Macros67727
Node: User Values70579
Node: Yacc72910
Node: Scanner Options73805
Node: Options for Specifying Filenames76561
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Node: Options Affecting Scanner Behavior78806
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Node: Performance101663
Node: Cxx111905
Node: Reentrant119507
Node: Reentrant Uses120184
Node: Reentrant Overview121745
Node: Reentrant Example122544
Node: Reentrant Detail123318
Node: Specify Reentrant123751
Node: Extra Reentrant Argument124398
Node: Global Replacement125649
Node: Init and Destroy Functions126877
Node: Accessor Methods129394
Node: Extra Data130736
Node: About yyscan_t133001
Node: Reentrant Functions133396
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Node: Lex and Posix135617
Node: Memory Management142988
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Node: Overriding The Default Memory Management147321
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Node: A Note About yytext And Memory149882
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Node: Loading and Unloading Serialized Tables153632
Node: Tables File Format155400
Node: Diagnostics162414
Node: Limitations165823
Node: Bibliography167771
Node: FAQ168444
Node: When was flex born?172684
Node: How do I expand backslash-escape sequences in C-style quoted strings?173061
Node: Why do flex scanners call fileno if it is not ANSI compatible?174365
Node: Does flex support recursive pattern definitions?175160
Node: How do I skip huge chunks of input (tens of megabytes) while using flex?176006
Node: Flex is not matching my patterns in the same order that I defined them.176473
Node: My actions are executing out of order or sometimes not at all.178218
Node: How can I have multiple input sources feed into the same scanner at the same time?178991
Node: Can I build nested parsers that work with the same input file?180979
Node: How can I match text only at the end of a file?181985
Node: How can I make REJECT cascade across start condition boundaries?182789
Node: Why cant I use fast or full tables with interactive mode?183803
Node: How much faster is -F or -f than -C?185061
Node: If I have a simple grammar cant I just parse it with flex?185373
Node: Why doesn't yyrestart() set the start state back to INITIAL?185854
Node: How can I match C-style comments?186481
Node: The period isn't working the way I expected.187291
Node: Can I get the flex manual in another format?188538
Node: Does there exist a "faster" NDFA->DFA algorithm?189027
Node: How does flex compile the DFA so quickly?189537
Node: How can I use more than 8192 rules?190504
Node: How do I abandon a file in the middle of a scan and switch to a new file?191914
Node: How do I execute code only during initialization (only before the first scan)?192467
Node: How do I execute code at termination?193244
Node: Where else can I find help?193570
Node: Can I include comments in the "rules" section of the file?193943
Node: I get an error about undefined yywrap().194322
Node: How can I change the matching pattern at run time?194798
Node: How can I expand macros in the input?195160
Node: How can I build a two-pass scanner?196192
Node: How do I match any string not matched in the preceding rules?197108
Node: I am trying to port code from AT&T lex that uses yysptr and yysbuf.198017
Node: Is there a way to make flex treat NULL like a regular character?198812
Node: Whenever flex can not match the input it says "flex scanner jammed".199333
Node: Why doesn't flex have non-greedy operators like perl does?199976
Node: Memory leak - 16386 bytes allocated by malloc.201329
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Node: How do I track the byte offset for lseek()?202594
Node: How do I use my own I/O classes in a C++ scanner?204103
Node: How do I skip as many chars as possible?204946
Node: deleteme00206020
Node: Are certain equivalent patterns faster than others?206460
Node: Is backing up a big deal?209878
Node: Can I fake multi-byte character support?211784
Node: deleteme01213225
Node: Can you discuss some flex internals?214334
Node: unput() messes up yy_at_bol216578
Node: The | operator is not doing what I want217680
Node: Why can't flex understand this variable trailing context pattern?219226
Node: The ^ operator isn't working220475
Node: Trailing context is getting confused with trailing optional patterns221710
Node: Is flex GNU or not?222953
Node: ERASEME53224626
Node: I need to scan if-then-else blocks and while loops225396
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Node: Is there a repository for flex scanners?230049
Node: How can I conditionally compile or preprocess my flex input file?230364
Node: Where can I find grammars for lex and yacc?230837
Node: I get an end-of-buffer message for each character scanned.231184
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Node: What is the difference between YYLEX_PARAM and YY_DECL?274084
Node: Why do I get "conflicting types for yylex" error?274605
Node: How do I access the values set in a Flex action from within a Bison action?275135
Node: Appendices275566
Node: Makefiles and Flex275775
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Node: Addresses286869
Node: Indices288182
Node: Concept Index288420
Node: Index of Functions and Macros313703
Node: Index of Variables318599
Node: Index of Data Types320265
Node: Index of Hooks321153
Node: Index of Scanner Options321721

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