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Lexer vs Lexed - What's the difference?

lexer | lexed |

As a noun lexer

is (computing) a computer program that performs lexical analysis.

As a verb lexed is

(lex).

lexer

English

(wikipedia lexer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) A computer program that performs lexical analysis.

    • Synonyms

    * lexical analyzer

    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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