Flex Alternatives

Flex is described as '(fast lexical analyzer generator) is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text. The flex program reads user-specified input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, for a' and is an app. There are four alternatives to Flex for Windows, Linux and Mac. The best Flex alternative is Ragel, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Flex are ANTLR, Owl parser generator and textX.

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  1. Ragel icon
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    Ragel is a finite-state machine compiler and a parser generator targeting C, C++ and ASM. It can recognize byte sequences and execute code at arbitrary points in the process.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Ragel is the most popular Windows alternative to Flex.

    • Ragel is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Flex.

    • Ragel is Free and Open SourceFlex is also Free and Open Source
  2. ANTLR icon
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    ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • ANTLR is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Flex.

    • ANTLR is Free and Open SourceFlex is also Free and Open Source
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    Owl is a parser generator which targets the class of visibly pushdown languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. textX icon
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    textX is a meta-language for building Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) in Python. It is inspired by Xtext.

    It will help you build your textual language easily. You can invent your own language or build a support for an existing textual language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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