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third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed
(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing. quotations examples
Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
1994, Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis
Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...
2007, Don Syme with Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#
plural lexes
(linguistics) A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme. examples