Parsing (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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  1. the act or process of analyzing sentences or their elements grammatically: Many sites offer additional help for those studying classical Greek texts, such as quick parsing and translation.
  2. the act or process of analyzing language, behavior, events, etc., closely or minutely to discover their implications or deeper meaning: At first I interpreted the case the same way, but on second thought, and after careful parsing of the press releases, it's not as clear-cut.There will always be opportunities to entertain disquisitions on the subject, more detailed parsing of the circumstances, and so on.
  3. the process of analyzing character strings in order to associate them with syntactic units of the underlying grammar: If the file path contains spaces, use double quotes to ensure correct parsing.
Parsing (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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