CONCEPTS OF PROGRAMMING LANG.-TEXT
CONCEPTS OF PROGRAMMING LANG.-TEXT
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ISBN: 2810017678981
Author: Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON
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Primary tasks of a lexical analyzer:

Lexical analysis does the analysis of small language constructs like names and numeric literals. So, the primary task of the lexical analyzer is to scan the program file, recognize the lexemes in the program and categorize them into associated tokens. Thus, the primary tasks of lexical analyzer are:

  • Produces a stream of tokens...

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