What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?

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What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?..

Answer / vengatesh

The main task of lexical anlyzer is to form token.It takes
source code as input & begin scanning from left to right &
form token which are enter in the symbol table to generate
parse tree during compilation.So lexical anlyzer is the
first part of compilation.

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What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?..

Answer / varun

The purpose of the lexical analyzer is to partition the input text, delivering a sequence of comments and basic symbols. Comments are character sequences to be ignored, while basic symbols are character sequences that correspond to terminal symbols of the grammar defining the phrase structure of the input

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What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?..

Answer / arulmozhi.p

lexical analysis is the process of converting a sequence of
characters into a sequence of tokens.

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What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?..

Answer / tushar

The purpose of the lexical analyzer is to partition the input text, delivering a sequence of comments and basic symbols. Comments are character sequences to be ignored, while basic symbols are character sequences that correspond to terminal symbols of the grammar defining the phrase structure of the input

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