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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++.

Version: 3.5.1.0 License: GPL-3 GitHub
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