rflex is a fast lexical analyzer generator for Rust.

cargo install rflex

or

Write your Cargo.toml and build.rs

[package]
# ...
build = "build.rs"

[build-dependencies]
# ...
failure = "0.1.5"
rflex = "0.8"

extern crate rflex;
use std::env;
use std::path::Path;

fn main() {
    let out_dir = env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap();
    let dest = Path::new(&out_dir).join("target.rs");
    let path = Path::new("src").join("target.l");
    if let Err(e) = rflex::process(path, Some(dest)) {
        for cause in failure::Fail::iter_chain(&e) {
            eprintln!("{}: {}", cause.name().unwrap_or("Error"), cause);
        }
        std::process::exit(1);
    }
}

See tutorial.md.

• e{num} ... repeat e num times
• e{min,max} ... repeat e min to max times
• e/s ... lookahead s before accept e

• rflex is released under MIT License.

• Copyright (c) 2018 Preferred Networks, Inc.
• Partial original codes were written in Java under 3-clause BSD license:
  • Copyright (c) Gerwin Klein, Steve Rowe, Regis Decamp. All rights reserved.

These libraries are used only rflex lexer generator, generated code doesn't depend on them.

• fixedbitset released under MIT License
  • Copyright (c) 2015-2017
• liquid released under MIT License
  • Copyright (c) 2014 cobalt-org
• failure released under MIT License