lexical analysis

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 词法分析
 * Icelandic: lesgreining
 * Japanese: 字句解析
 * Malay: analisis leksikal
 * Romanian: analiză lexicală
 * Vietnamese: phân tích từ vựng