1 This is flex, the fast lexical analyzer generator.
3 flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize
4 lexical patterns in text.
6 More information about flex as well as the latest official release of
9 http://flex.sourceforge.net/
11 Of particular interest is the mailing list
12 flex-announce@lists.sourceforge.net as that is where posts will be made
13 announcing new releases of flex.
15 Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of
16 BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
18 This file is part of flex.
20 This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
23 The United States Government has rights in this work pursuant
24 to contract no. DE-AC03-76SF00098 between the United States
25 Department of Energy and the University of California.
27 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
28 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
31 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
32 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
33 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
34 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
35 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
37 Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
38 may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
39 without specific prior written permission.
41 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
42 IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
43 WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
46 Please send bug reports and feedback to flex-help@lists.sourceforge.net.
48 The flex distribution contains the following files which may be of interest:
52 NEWS - current version number and list of user-visible changes.
54 INSTALL - basic installation information.
56 ABOUT-NLS - description of internationalization support in flex.
58 COPYING - flex's copyright and license.
60 doc/ - user documentation.
62 examples/ - containing examples of some possible flex scanners and a
63 few other things. See the file examples/README for more details.
65 TODO - outstanding bug reports, desired features, etc.
67 tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details.
69 po/ - internationalization support files.