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alex: Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell

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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++.

Changes in 3.1.0:

  • necessary changes to work with GHC 7.8.1

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Dependencies array, base (>=1.0 && <4.7), 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 2 made by HerbertValerioRiedel at 2015-01-06T21:50:58Z
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 2013-09-16T19:33:54Z
Distributions Arch:3.2.7.3, Debian:3.2.5, Fedora:3.2.7.1, FreeBSD:3.1.4, LTSHaskell:3.2.7.4, NixOS:3.2.7.4, Stackage:3.3.0.0, openSUSE:3.2.7.1
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		       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/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