JFlex User's Manual

• Introduction
  • Design goals
  • About this manual
• Installing and Running JFlex
  • Installing JFlex
    • Windows
    • Unix with tar archive
    • Linux with RPM
  • Running JFlex
• A simple Example: How to work with JFlex
  • Code to include
  • Options and Macros
  • Rules and Actions
  • How to get it going
• Lexical Specifications
  • User code
  • Options and declarations
    • Class options and user class code
    • Scanning method
    • The end of file
    • Standalone scanners
    • CUP compatibility
    • BYacc/J compatibility
    • Code generation
    • Character sets
    • Line, character and column counting
    • Obsolete JLex options
    • State declarations
    • Macro definitions
  • Lexical rules
    • Syntax
    • Semantics
    • How the input is matched
    • The generated class
    • Scanner methods and fields accessible in actions (API)
• Encodings, Platforms, and Unicode
  • The Problem
  • Scanning text files
  • Scanning binaries
• A few words on performance
  • Comparison of JLex and JFlex
  • How to write a faster specification
• Porting Issues
  • Porting from JLex
  • Porting from lex/flex
    • Basic structure
    • Macros and Regular Expression Syntax
    • Lexical Rules
• Working together
  • JFlex and CUP
    • CUP version 0.10j and above
    • Custom symbol interface
    • Using existing JFlex/CUP specifications with CUP 0.10j
    • Using older versions of CUP
  • JFlex and BYacc/J
• Bugs and Deficiencies
  • Deficiencies
  • Bugs
• Copying and License