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Hexed vs Lexed - What's the difference?

hexed | lexed |

As verbs the difference between hexed and lexed

is that hexed is past tense of hex while lexed is past tense of lex.

As an adjective hexed

is cursed; afflicted with bad luck.

hexed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Cursed; afflicted with bad luck.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (hex)

    • lexed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lex)

    • 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

    See also

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