Parser - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Parser :  (noun)

1: a computer program that divides code up into functional components; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code"

Based on WordNet 2.0

Parser : \Pars"er\, n. One who parses.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Parser : 

An algorithm or program to determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some language. A parser normally takes as input a sequence of tokens output by a lexical analyser. It may produce some kind of abstract syntax tree as output. One of the best known parser generators is yacc.

(1997-07-21)



Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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