Dictionary

lexical analysis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈlɛksɪkəl əˈnæləsɪs/ (General-American)

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing.
   • While it's often not difficult to identify tokens while parsing, having a separate stage for lexical analysis simplifies the structure of your compiler.

Forms

Deriveds

lexer · lex

Relateds

lexical analyzer · semantic analysis · parsing

Translations (7)

cmn 词法分析 (conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens) · ro analiză lexicală (conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens) · is lesgreining (conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens) · vi phân tích từ vựng (conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens) · ja 字句解析 (conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens) · pl analiza leksykalna (conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens) · ms analisis leksikal (conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens)