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Can someone tell me how I can install flex (lexical analyzer) on my Mac? I searched everywhere on google and I can't find it. I have the universal binary and I extracted it to my desktop but I have no idea where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Flex is a fast lexical analyser generator. It is a tool for generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text. Flex is a non-GNU free implementation of the well known Lex program. The GNU Project did develop a manual for Flex.
flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize lexical patterns in text. flex reads the given input files (or its standard input if no file names are given) for a description of the scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions and C code, called rules .
Try using Homebrew (Packet manager for Mac) and use the following command :-
brew install flex
You can use macports to install flex
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