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LEX(1)              UNIX Programmer's Manual               LEX(1)



NAME
     lex - generator of lexical analysis programs

SYNOPSIS
     lex [ -tvfn ] [ file ] ...

DESCRIPTION
     _L_e_x generates programs to be used in simple lexical analyis
     of text.  The input _f_i_l_e_s (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, to be compiled
     thus:

          cc lex.yy.c -ll

     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 following _l_e_x 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(' ');

     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.

     -f   `Faster' compilation: don't bother to pack the result-
          ing tables; limited to small programs.

SEE ALSO
     yacc(1), sed(1)
     M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt, _L_E_X - _L_e_x_i_c_a_l _A_n_a_l_y_z_e_r _G_e_n_e_r_a_t_o_r








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