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++.
Changes in 3.1.0:
necessary changes to work with GHC 7.8.1
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| Versions | 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 |
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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 Tue Jan 6 21:50:58 UTC 2015 |
| 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 Mon Sep 16 19:33:54 UTC 2013 |
| Distributions | Arch:3.2.4, Debian:3.1.6, Fedora:3.2.3, FreeBSD:3.1.4, LTSHaskell:3.2.4, NixOS:3.2.4, Stackage:3.2.4, openSUSE:3.2.4 |
| Executables | alex |
| Downloads | 103908 total (377 in the last 30 days) |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Successful builds reported [all 1 reports] Hackage Matrix CI |
Flags
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
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| small_base | Choose the new smaller, split-up base package. | Enabled | Automatic |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
Downloads
- alex-3.1.0.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (revised from the package)
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