Definitions | lex |
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- (computing) A program (originally developed under Unix) involved in lexical analysis -- specifically, a program for generating lexical analyzers.
verb
- (computing) To lexically analyze a computer program's source code, prior to parse, parsing it.
Etymology: From lexical analysis, from lexical
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