COMPILER DESIGN

SYNTAX ANALYSIS

ROLE OF THE PARSER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the action of parsing the source program into proper syntactic classes?
A
Lexical analysis
B
Syntax analysis
C
General syntax analysis
D
Interpretation analysis
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What is the action of parsing the source program into proper syntactic classes known as? Explanation: The action of parsing the source program into proper syntactic classes known as lexical analysis.

Detailed explanation-2: -The action of parsing the source program into the proper syntactic classes is known as syntax analysis. A syntax analyzer or parser takes the input from a lexical analyzer in the form of token streams.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lexical analysis is the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens while syntax analysis is the process of analyzing a string of symbols either in natural language, computer languages or data structures conforming to the rules of a formal grammar.

Detailed explanation-4: -Syntactic analysis or parsing or syntax analysis is the third phase of NLP. The purpose of this phase is to draw exact meaning, or you can say dictionary meaning from the text. Syntax analysis checks the text for meaningfulness comparing to the rules of formal grammar.

Detailed explanation-5: -The syntactic analysis basically assigns a semantic structure to text. It is also known as syntax analysis or parsing.

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