alex: Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell
Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell. It takes a description of tokens based on regular expressions and generates a Haskell module containing code for scanning text efficiently. It is similar to the tool lex or flex for C/C++.
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Flags
Automatic Flags
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| small_base | Choose the new smaller, split-up base package. | Enabled |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
Downloads
- alex-3.0.3.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (revised from the package)
Note: This package has metadata revisions in the cabal description newer than included in the tarball. To unpack the package including the revisions, use 'cabal get'.
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| Versions [RSS] | 2.1.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.2.6, 3.2.7, 3.2.7.1, 3.2.7.2, 3.2.7.3, 3.2.7.4, 3.3.0.0, 3.4.0.0, 3.4.0.1, 3.5.0.0, 3.5.1.0 (info) |
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| Dependencies | array, base (>=1.0 && <4.8), containers, directory, QuickCheck (>=2) [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | (c) Chis Dornan, Simon Marlow |
| Author | Chris Dornan and Simon Marlow |
| Maintainer | Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> |
| Revised | Revision 1 made by HerbertValerioRiedel at 2014-12-23T12:52:31Z |
| Category | Development |
| Home page | http://www.haskell.org/alex/ |
| Bug tracker | mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/simonmar/alex.git |
| Uploaded | by SimonMarlow at 2013-02-18T10:04:13Z |
| Distributions | Arch:3.2.7.4, Debian:3.2.5, Fedora:3.3.0.0, FreeBSD:3.1.4, LTSHaskell:3.4.0.1, NixOS:3.4.0.1, Stackage:3.5.1.0, openSUSE:3.5.0.0 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 1 direct, 0 indirect [details] |
| Executables | alex |
| Downloads | 167458 total (532 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.0 (votes: 1) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
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| Status | Docs not available [build log] Last success reported on 2015-05-23 [all 8 reports] |