Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780133943023
Author: Robert W. Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4, Problem 4RQ

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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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