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Definition of 'lex'English
Verb
(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
* 1994 , Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
- Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
* 2004 , Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis
- SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
* 2007 , Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#
- Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...
Derived terms
* lexer
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