How is RE-flex different from reflex?

Genivia / RE-flex

A high-performance C++ regex library and lexical analyzer generator with Unicode support. Extends Flex++ with Unicode support, indent/dedent anchors, lazy quantifiers, functions for lex and syntax error reporting and more. Seamlessly integrates with Bison and other parsers.

https://www.genivia.com/doc/reflex/html

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How is RE-flex different from reflex? #120

Closed firasuke closed 2 years ago

firasuke commented 2 years ago

There exists a project with a similar name that appears to be a variant of flex as well:

https://invisible-island.net/reflex/

genivia-inc commented 2 years ago

When releasing RE/flex back in 2016, I searched the web for "reflex" with flex but could not find any public distros and repos that matched both names with the project name being "reflex". Anyway, RE/flex is the official name of this project, suggesting a combination of "RE" (regular expression libraries) with "flex". So I don't see a problem.