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From: Tom Shields <thomas.evans.shields@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Flex is the most powerful lexical analysis language in the world. True or False?
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 14:14:48 -0500
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FYI: RE/flex [https://github.com/Genivia/RE-flex] provides a superset
of flex functionality, generates a better implementation of a scanner
in C++ than does flex, and, most importantly, is actively maintained.

Tom Shields