Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm playing with CodeMirror, a
browser-based editor written in JavaScript. It has a pluggable
syntax highlighting component. I'd like to be able to take
standard lex files for an arbitrary language and generate a
lexer in JavaScript that I could plug into CodeMirror. Is there
such a lexer generator available?  share|improve this question
possible duplicate of Lexer written in Javascript? –  Bergi Sep
27 '12 at 22:15 @Bergi : I saw that, but I need something that
would accept a lex file as input. –  Bartosz Milewski Sep 27 '12
at 23:17 So I guess the answer is no. –  Bartosz Milewski Oct 2
'12 at 17:27 add comment  1 Answer  I don't have a ready made
solution to your question, but I may be able to help by
recommending lexertl (http://www.benhanson.net/lexertl.html).
Although you will need to write a code generator yourself as
well as any semantic actions processing, lexertl offers a simple
interface to produce the state machines from your regular
expressions.  The existing code genera