| lex \- generator of lexical analysis programs |
| generates programs to be used in simple lexical analysis of text. |
| contain regular expressions |
| to be searched for and actions written in C to be executed when |
| This program, when run, copies unrecognized portions of |
| and executes the associated |
| C action for each regular expression that is recognized. |
| The options have the following meanings. |
| Place the result on the standard output instead of in file |
| Print a one-line summary of statistics of the generated analyzer. |
| 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\'); |
| M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt, |
| `LEX\(emLexical Analyzer Generator', |
| Unix Research System Programmer's Manual, |
| The asteroid to kill this dinosaur is still in orbit. |
