alex

v 3.5.1.0 Updated: 8 months, 2 weeks ago

A tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell

Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell. It takes a description of tokens based on regular expressions and generates a Haskell module containing code for scanning text efficiently. It is similar to the tool lex or flex for C/C++.

https://www.haskell.org/alex/

To install alex, paste this in macOS terminal after installing MacPorts

sudo port install alex

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