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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)

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