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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Lex and initial start conditions
Summary: Berkeley Flex
Message-ID: <1990Jun3.024659.4122@holos0.uucp>
Date: 3 Jun 90 02:46:59 GMT
References: <6342@crabcake> <1990May30.174745.1161@csrd.uiuc.edu> <254@samna.UUCP>
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <254@samna.UUCP> jeff@samna.UUCP (Jeff Barber) writes:

For real control of start conditions, use flex, the Berkeley fast lexical
analyzer.  It runs *far* faster than lex, both at lex time and run time, doesn't
require a bunch of table scaling (% this and % that),  has enhancements
to the start conditions, allows you to more control over the lexer program,
is available in source form, and runs on DOS as well as Unix.  (That last
item is unforunately important to me.)  Flex has been posted to the net.

I'd never go back to lex....
-- 
Len Reed
Holos Software, Inc.
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