Project Summary
Generator of extremely fast lexical analysers. Sophisticated input/buffer management. Many character encodings (incl. ASCII, UTF8, UTF16, RUSCII, ...) are directly supported. Regular expressions are specified in the lex/flex style.
Features:
* Support for Unicode and many other character encodings.
* Modes with inheritance relationships and transition rules.
* Sophisticated buffer management.
* Include stacks.
* Customized token classes.
* Template compression for code size reduction.
* Path compression for code size reduction.
* Possibility of indentation based lexical analysis (INDENT, DEDENT, NODENT).
* Produces direct coded lexical analyzers.
* Adjustable implicit line and column number counting.
In a Nutshell, Lexical Analyzer Generator Quex...
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took an estimated 19 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2010
ending with its most recent commit about 5 years ago
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