NAME

       ml-ulex - a Unicode-compatible lexical analyser generator

SYNOPSIS

       ml-ulex [OPTIONS] file

DESCRIPTION

       Ml-ulex is a lexer generator that supports Unicode characters (in UTF-8 representation)
       and an extended form of regular expressions.

OPTIONS

       --dot
           generate DOT output (http://www.graphviz.org). The generated file will be named
           file.dot, where file is the input file.

       --match
           enter interactive matching mode. This will allow interactive testing of the machine;
           presently, only the INITIAL start state is available for testing (see the User Guide
           for details on start states).

       --ml-lex-mode
           operate in ml-lex compatibility mode.

       --table-based
           generate a table-based lexer.

       --fn-based
           generate a lexer that represents states as functions and transitions as tail calls.

       --minimize
           generate a minimal machine. Note that this is slow, and is almost never necessary.

       --strict-sml
           generate strict SML (i.e., do not use SML/NJ extensions). This flag is useful if you
           want to use the output with a different SML system.

AUTHOR

       ml-ulex(1) was written by Aaron Turon.

COPYING

       Copyright © 2014 The Fellowship of SML/NJ

       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not
       even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE-ALSO

       ml-antlr(1)

       The SML/NJ Language Processing Tools: User Guide.

       Regular-expression derivatives reexamined by Scott Owens, John Reppy, and Aaron Turon.
       Journal of Functional Programming, 19(2):173-190, 2009.