Parser

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  parser \pars"er\, n.
     One who parses.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  parser
       n : a computer program that divides code up into functional
           components; "compilers must parse source code in order to
           translate it into object code"

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  parser
       
           An {algorithm} or program to determine the
          syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some
          language.  A parser normally takes as input a sequence of
          {tokens} output by a {lexical analyser}.  It may produce some
          kind of {abstract syntax tree} as output.  One of the best
          known {parser generators} is {yacc}.
       
          (1997-07-21)