Lexical-analysis Definition

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(computer science) The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing.

While it's often not difficult to identify tokens while parsing, having a separate stage for lexical analysis simplifies the structure of your compiler.
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