The Quex Manual

Contents:

• Make It!
  • Demo Applications
  • Summary
• Coffee & Cookies
• Syntax
• Regular Expressions
  • Elementary Regular Expressions
    • Single Character Transition DFAs
    • Character Set Transition DFAs
    • Encoding
  • Singular DFAs
  • Elementary Compositions
    • Concatenation
    • Union
    • Repetition
    • Grouping
  • Derived Compositions
  • Elementary Commonality
  • Unary Graph Operations
    • Reversible Operations
    • Irreversible Operations
    • Sanity
  • Binary Graph Operations
    • Set Algebraic Operations
    • Set Filtering
    • Lexeme Pruning
  • Edit Distance
    • Applications
      • Diacritic Tolerance
      • Fuzzy Matching and Spelling Error Detection
      • Edit Distance Measurement
  • Auxiliary Operations
  • Pre- and Post-Contexts
  • Shorthand and Macro Expansion
• Modes
  • Pattern-Action Pairs
    • Lexeme Related Variables
    • Brief Commands
      • Token Sending
    • Mode Transitions
    • brief and keyword_list
    • Source Code Reactions
  • Event Handlers
    • error_code_set_if_first()
    • error_code_clear_this()
    • Failures and End of Stream
    • Pattern Matching Adornments
    • Mode Transitions
    • Buffer Handling
    • Skippers
    • Indentation Based Scopes
  • Summary
  • Line and Column Number Counting
  • Indentation Counting / Off-Side Rule
    • Aspects of Indentation Handling
      • Basic Functioning
      • Misfitting Indentation
      • Suppressed Newline
      • Suspended Indentation
      • Bad Indentation Characters
    • Token Sending
  • Interference with Pattern Matching
  • Tabs vs. Spaces
  • Inheritance
    • yes
    • only
    • no
  • Precedence Rules
    • Positional Precedence Modifications
  • Pitfalls
    • Pattern Matching
      • Interferring Patterns
      • Delimters in Pattern
      • Matching Length vs. Input Position Progress
      • Sentinels
    • Stall Conditions
• Input
  • Make It!
  • The Buffer
  • Byte Loaders
  • ByteLoader_Monitor
  • ByteLoader_stream
    • Creating a Customized ByteLoader
      • BinaryModeF
      • ChunkSizeInBytes
      • ChunkPositionOfReadByteIdxZero
  • Lexatom Loading
  • Byte Order Marks
    • Customization
      • E_LoadResult()
  • Purpose and Repurpose
    • Construction
    • Reset
    • Inclusion
  • Stream Navigation
  • Summary

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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