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LEX(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual LEX(1)

lex - generator of lexical analysis programs

lex [ -tvn9 ] [ file ... ]

Lex generates programs to be used in simple lexical analysis of text. The input files (standard input default) contain regular expressions to be searched for and actions written in C to be executed when expressions are found.

A C source program, lex.yy.c is generated. This program, when run, copies unrecognized portions of the input to the output, and executes the associated C action for each regular expression that is recognized.

The options have the following meanings.

-t
Place the result on the standard output instead of in file lex.yy.c.
-v
Print a one-line summary of statistics of the generated analyzer.
-n
Opposite of -v; -n is default.
-9
Adds code to be able to compile through the native C compilers.

This program converts upper case to lower, removes blanks at the end of lines, and replaces multiple blanks by single blanks.

%%
[A-Z]	putchar(yytext[0]+´a´-´A´);
[ ]+$
[ ]+	putchar(´ ´);

lex.yy.c
output
/sys/lib/lex/ncform
template

yacc(1),
M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt, `LEX—Lexical Analyzer Generator', Unix Research System Programmer's Manual, Tenth Edition, Volume 2.

/src/cmd/lex

Cannot handle UTF.

The asteroid to kill this dinosaur is still in orbit.


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