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++.


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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 && <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 2017-09-08T11:05:13Z
Distributions Arch:3.3.0.0, 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:3.5.1.0
Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables alex
Downloads 167980 total (624 in the last 30 days)
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Alex: A Lexical Analyser Generator

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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 and cabal-install, then:

$ cabal configure
$ cabal build
$ cabal 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 '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 at https://github.com/simonmar/alex/issues

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Chris Dornan: cdornan@arm.com

Isaac Jones: ijones@syntaxpolice.org

Simon Marlow: simonmar@microsoft.com