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<h1>re2c</h1>
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+<b>re2c</b> is a tool for writing very fast and very flexible scanners. Unlike
+any other such tool, <b>re2c</b> focuses on generating high efficient code for
+regular expression matching. As a result this allows a much broader range of
+use than any traditional lexer offers. And Last but not least <b>re2c</b>
+generates warning free code that is equal to hand-written code in terms of
+size, speed and quality.
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+The above made the <a href="http://php.net">PHP</a> team to use <b>re2c</b> in
+various places.
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+Marcus Börger (helly@users.sourceforge.net)
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<b>re2c</b> is a great tool and was unmaintained for quite some time, and in
fact didn't even compile with newer versions of gcc. I've used re2c in a few
of my projects (e.g. OpenWBEM), and I have an interest in lexers (I wrote a
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