English-Finnish translations for lexical analysis

Definition of lexical analysis

• The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing

Examples

• While its often not difficult to identify tokens while parsing, having a separate stage for lexical analysis simplifies the structure of your compiler.

Related words

• lexical
• lexicalized
• lexicalisation
• lexicalise
• lexicalised
• lexically
• lexicalize
• lexicalization
• lexical analyzer
• lexical category