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Alex User Guide
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Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers, also known as "lexers" and "scanners", in Haskell.
The lexical analysers implement a description of the tokens to be recognised in the form of regular expressions.
It is similar to the tools "lex" and "flex" for C/C++.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Contents

   about
   obtaining
   introduction
   syntax
   regex
   api
   invoking
   contributing



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