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Lex - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a verb lex

is to perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.

As a proper noun Lex

is a pet form of the male given name Alexander.

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

    * ----

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.