parser

3 definitions found

parser - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

parser - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  parser
      n 1: a computer program that divides code up into functional
           components; "compilers must parse source code in order to
           translate it into object code"

parser - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  parser
  parsing
  
     <language> 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)