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It is in a package called flex. [...]

I used `lex' a lot, before `flex', and `flex' has been a broad improvement for me, I will never repeat it enough. `lex' needed a lot of irritating declarations to help it complete its job, while `flex' manages automatically. `flex' can produce 8-bit clean analysers, most `lex' are not. And above all, `flex' is really faster than anything else I tried, and very capable too. I sometimes gave `flex' very heavy grammars, which always produced invariably fast and usually small analysers. (Except in one case, where the analyser was big, but my grammar was just excessive -- I wanted to break `flex' limits, anyway :-). In fact, when I had automaton problems, I often managed to write automatic converters into character stream paradigms, and used `flex' to optimise them. This got me to easily produce blazing fast programs to solve particularly difficult problems. It surely impressed customers! :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq