ALL meanings of lexical analysis
- noun Technical meaning of lexical analysis (programming) (Or "linear analysis", "scanning") The first stage of processing a language. The stream of characters making up the source program or other input is read one at a time and grouped into lexemes (or "tokens") - word-like pieces such as keywords, identifiers, literals and punctuation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser. 1
- noun lexical analysis (computer science) The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing. 0