May 15, 2003

lexer

/lek´sr/ n.

Common hacker shorthand for lexical analyzer, the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces). Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like =-.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:40 AM

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