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Lexical Analysis

Breaking source code into tokens

1 min read | Compiler Design
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Tokenizing Source Code

Lexical analysis (scanning) is the first phase โ€” it converts a stream of characters into a stream of tokens. Each token represents a meaningful unit of the language.

Tokens

Regular Expressions

Finite Automata

๐Ÿงช Quick Quiz

What does lexical analysis produce?