alex

Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell

http://www.haskell.org/alex/

Version on this page:3.1.3@rev:1
LTS Haskell 22.17:3.4.0.1
Stackage Nightly 2024-04-19:3.5.1.0
Latest on Hackage:3.5.1.0

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Chris Dornan and Simon Marlow
Maintained by Simon Marlow
This version can be pinned in stack with:alex-3.1.3@sha256:cd88d8be642aa3de367ccc2bcfa54c68ed2156260b982d613f4d22b50959a099,3010

Module documentation for 3.1.3

There are no documented modules for this package.

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++.

Changes in 3.1.3:

  • Fix for clang (XCode 5)

Changes in 3.1.2:

  • Add missing file to extra-source-files

Changes in 3.1.1:

  • Bug fixes (#24, #30, #31, #32)

Changes in 3.1.0:

  • necessary changes to work with GHC 7.8.1