Lexical Analysis - Scanner

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A scanner reads a source file (backwards or forwards) and returns one token at a time.

  • Lexical Scanner that returns token are known as lexer.
  • Low level scanner that works one character at a time are the foundation of lexer. Optionally, they can and keep track of which line number and character is currently being read.





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