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Where should I draw the line between lexical analysis and parsing?

April 26, 2017analysis draw lexical line parsing

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Where should I draw the line between lexical analysis and parsing?

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This question is dependant on the application. A lot of simple applications only require a token manager. However, many people try to do too much with the lexical analyzer, for example they try to write an expression parser using only the lexical analyzer.