scanner generator
C30688
concept
A scanner generator is a tool that automatically produces lexical analyzers (tokenizers) from high-level specifications of token patterns, typically written using regular expressions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| scanner generator canonical | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: scanner generator
Generated description
A scanner generator is a tool that automatically produces lexical analyzers (tokenizers) from high-level specifications of token patterns, typically written using regular expressions.
Instances (1)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
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| GNU Flex | — |