Lex Flex variant that will do the Perl REGEX extensions

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I use flex & lex a lot for stripping stuff from e-mail attachments in scritps. I wondered if there are moden versions and variants of the lex programs that have the perl REGEX extensions.

I know the boost libs support perl style but this is not quite what I am looking for.

Cheers

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '09 at 08:48

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Follow this article about lexing with perl.

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David Schmitt

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '09 at 17:50

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I found Pro Perl Parsing to be a good book on the topic, covers grammars and lexing themselves as well as different cpan modules.

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Lex Flex variant that will do the Perl REGEX extensions

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