lexing

Verb

lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)

1. To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
   • 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)

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