Quex Manual

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Installation
    • Visual Studio(tm) Trouble Shooting
      • Plotting
  • Licensing
  • The Name of the Game
  • Stability
• Basic Concepts
  • Pattern-Action Pairs
  • Modes
  • Event Handling
  • Sections
  • Usage Scenerios
  • Number Format
• Usage
  • Minimalist Example
  • Pattern Definition
    • Context Free Regular Expressions
    • Character Set Expressions
    • Unicode Properties
      • UCS Property Descriptions
    • Pitfalls
    • Pre- and Post- Conditions
    • Pitfalls with Pre- and Post-Conditions
  • Actions
    • Token ID Definition
    • Sending Tokens
      • Analyzis Continuation
      • Preparing a Token Object
    • Mode Transitions
    • C/C++ Code Segments
      • Mode Objects
  • Modes
    • Mode Characteristics
      • Options
      • Event Handlers
    • Event Handler Pitfalls
    • Inheritance
      • Multiple Inheritance
      • Precedence Modifications
        • PRIORITY-MARK
        • DELETION
  • Show Time
• Character Encodings
  • The Process of Buffer Filling
  • Analyzer Engine Codec
    • The UTF8 Codec
    • The UTF16 Codec
    • Summary
  • Conversion
  • Customized Converters
  • Converter Helper Functions
  • Byte Order Mark
• Direct Buffer Access
  • Copying Content
    • Syntactically Chunked Input Frames
    • Arbitrarily Chunked Input Frames
  • Direct Filling
  • Pointing
  • Character Conversions
• Advanced Usage
  • Token Passing Policies
    • Automatic Token Memory Management
      • Queue
      • Single
    • User Controlled Token Memory Management
      • Token Construction and Destruction
    • Remark on Token Passing
    • Summary
  • User defined Token Classes
    • Customized Token Classes
    • Formal Requirements on Token Classes.
  • Token Repetition
  • Line and Column Number Counting
  • Stamping Tokens
  • Stream Navigation
  • Include Stack
    • Memento Extensions
    • HOWTO
    • Infinite Recursion Protection
    • Caveats
  • Indentation Based Blocks
  • Indentation Parameters
  • Customized Indentation Event Handlers
  • Remarks on Hand-Written Indentation Management
    • Caveat
  • Deriving from Lexical Analyser
  • Multiple Lexical Analyzers
  • Reset and Change of Input Source
  • The Accumulator
  • The Post Categorizer
• Tuning
  • Template Compression
    • Principle of Template Compression
  • Path Compression
    • Principle of Path Compression
  • Combining Multiple Compression Types
  • Token Queues
  • Memory Management
  • Additional Hints
• Invocation and Compilation
  • Command Line Options
  • Compile Options
    • Options
    • Settings
    • Types
  • Character Set Queries
    • Unicode Properties
    • Character Set Expressions
    • Property Wildcard Expressions
    • Codec Queries
  • State Machine Plots

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page