How to Install alex in Ubuntu 18.04



Install alex by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install alex

Description:

lexical analyser generator for Haskell

Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell, given a description of the tokens to be recognised in the form of regular expressions. It is similar to the tool lex or flex for C/C++.

Homepage: http://www.haskell.org/alex/

Version: 3.2.3-1

Section: universe/devel