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<title>Contents</title>
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<para>The Flex package contains the flex program</para>
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<sect2><title>Description</title>
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<para>Flex is a tool for generating programs which recognizes patterns in text.
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Pattern recognition is very useful in many applications. A user sets up rules
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what to look for and flex will make a program that looks for those
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patterns. The reason people use flex is that it is much easier to set up
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rules for what to look for than to write the actual program that finds
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the text.</para>
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</sect2>
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