Introduction

Flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer) is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text.

flex is available using the command:

module load flex

• More about flex
• More about modules

Available versions:

• 2.5.39 (new from 26-04-2017)
• 2.5.39-foss-2015b (new from 28-04-2017)
• 2.5.39-GCC-4.9.3-binutils-2.25 (new from 26-04-2017)
• 2.6.0 (new from 26-04-2017)
• 2.6.0-GCCcore-5.4.0 (new from 26-04-2017)
• 2.6.0-intel-2016b (new from 04-05-2017)