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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 3.1.4:

  • Add Applicative/Functor instances for GHC 7.10

Changes in 3.1.3:

  • Fix for clang (XCode 5)

Changes in 3.1.2:

  • Add missing file to extra-source-files

Changes in 3.1.1:

  • Bug fixes (#24, #30, #31, #32)

Changes in 3.1.0:

  • necessary changes to work with GHC 7.8.1

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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)
Dependencies array, base (>=1.0 && <5), 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>
Category Development
Home page http://www.haskell.org/alex/
Bug tracker https://github.com/simonmar/alex/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/simonmar/alex.git
Uploaded by SimonMarlow at 2015-01-06T20:50:44Z
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
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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