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Categories: Programming language implementation, Articles with short description, Compiler construction, Parsing, Lexical analysis
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lexical analysis  lexer  automatic semicolon insertion  lexeme  lexer generator
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Lexical tokenization is conversion of a text into meaningful lexical tokens belonging to categories defined by a "lexer" program. Wikipedia
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Lexical tokenization is conversion of a text into meaningful lexical tokens belonging to categories defined by a "lexer" program. Wikipedia
The process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens Wikipedia Disambiguation
Computing process of parsing a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens Wikidata
The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing. Wiktionary
Conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens. Wiktionary (translation)
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While it's often not difficult to identify tokens while parsing, having a separate stage for lexical analysis simplifies the structure of your compiler. Wiktionary
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