Alex: A Lexical Analyser Generator Alex is a Lex-like tool for generating Haskell scanners. For complete documentation, see the doc directory. http://www.haskell.org/alex/ http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/alex Alex is built using Cabal. First install GHC, then: $ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure $ runhaskell Setup.lhs build $ runhaskell Setup.lhs install Alex version 2.0 has changed fairly considerably since version 1.x, and the syntax is almost completely different. For a detailed list of changes, see the release notes in the documentation. Alex is now covered by a BSD-Style licence; see the licence file in the `doc' directory for details. The sources are in the the `src' directory and the documentation in the `doc' directory; various examples are in the 'examples' subdirectory. The source code in the 'src' and 'examples' directories is intended for a Haskell 98 compiler with hierarchical modules. It should work with GHC >= 5.04. Please report any bugs or comments to the email addresses given below. Share and enjoy, Chris Dornan: cdornan@arm.com Isaac Jones: ijones@syntaxpolice.org Simon Marlow: simonmar@microsoft.com