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DESCRIPTION

The Parse::Lex.pm module for perl5 is an object-oriented generator of
lexical analyzers.

 *************************WARNING!************************************
 * The Parse::Lex class doesn't work with a perl version inferior to *
 * 5.004. Use the Parse::Clex class instead.                         *
 *********************************************************************

Documentation is in French. It's not a linguistic provocation!  I am
very busy, and I've no time to translate the documentation in English
(and I know that the result will not be perfect ;-).

A collection of examples demonstrating various Parse::Lex features can
be found in the "examples" directory.

Copyright (c) 1995-1997 Philippe Verdret. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

-- 
philippe.verdret@sonovision-itep.fr

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HOW TO BUILD and INSTALL IT

				
% perl Makefile.PL
% make 
% make test	
% make install

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CHANGES, ESPECIALLY INCOMPATIBILITIES

Modifications of the 1.18 version

o Parse::Lex - Evolutions

  - Documentation enhancements 
    (thanks to Christian Schultze)
  - Internal enhancements
    Parse::Lex and Parse::CLex derive of the Parse::ALex Class.
    

o Parse::Token - Evolutions

  - Internal enhancements

Modifications of the 1.17 version

  Minors enhancements

Modifications of the 1.16 version

o Parse::Lex - Evolutions

  - documentation enhancements
  - new methods: 
    settoken() replace the depreciated method tokenis().

o Parse::Token - Evolutions
  
  - documentation enhancements
  - new methods: text(EXPR)/text()

o Parse::Lex - Bugs

  - "Makefile" problems

Modifications of the 1.15 version

o Parse::Lex - Evolutions

  - new methods: pos(), offset(), recordno().

  - creation of two classes: Parse::Lex, Parse::CLex.

o Parse::Lex - Bugs

  - "make install" seems to work correctly
    (Thanks to Helmut Jarausch and Paul Lucassen)

Modifications of the 1.14 version

o Some minor enhancements.

o Definition of the Trace package.
	
  - the trace method takes now one argument, which is either a file
    name or a reference to a filehandle.

Modifications of the 1.13 version

o Parse::Lex.pm - Bugs

  - Token define as a three part pattern isn't correctly implemented
    (Thanks to Thomas Mohr)
  - The default filehandle isn't correctly defined 
    Doesn't work with perl 5.004
    (Thanks to Helmut Jarausch)

Modifications of the 1.12 version

o Parse::Token.pm - New methods

  set() decorate a token object with an attribute-value list.

  get() get the value of a token object attribute

o Parse::Token.pm - Renamming

  set() is now named setbuffer()

  get() is now named getbuffer()

  met() is now named isnext()

o Warning suppressions