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diff --git a/gnu/packages/flex.scm b/gnu/packages/flex.scm index 82a2e98d98..0b290857fa 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/flex.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/flex.scm @@ -64,16 +64,16 @@ (home-page "http://flex.sourceforge.net/") (synopsis "Fast lexical analyser generator") (description - "Flex is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes + "Flex 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 +text. The flex program reads user-specified input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, for a description of a scanner to -generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions -and C code, called rules. Flex generates a C source file named, -\"lex.yy.c\", which defines the function yylex(). The file \"lex.yy.c\" -can be compiled and linked to produce an executable. When the executable +generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions +and C code, called rules. Flex generates a C source file named, +\"lex.yy.c\", which defines the function yylex(). The file \"lex.yy.c\" +can be compiled and linked to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of text matching the -regular expressions for each rule. Whenever it finds a match, it +regular expressions for each rule. Whenever it finds a match, it executes the corresponding C code.") (license (bsd-style "file://COPYING" "See COPYING in the distribution.")))) |