What is parsing?

[maRIO5]

What it means parsing?
Can you give me a practical example.
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dk

[Dave Miller]

Re: What is parsing?

In article <bgp983$9r9$1@s unce.iskon.hr>, mario_zupan@ine t.hr says...[color=blue]
> What it means parsing?
> Can you give me a practical example.
>[/color]
To parse means to break down into smaller components (pieces) of the
whole.

Suppose you have a servlet that is passed a get request consisting of a
string that reads "name=joe&game= tennis&fame=non e". You would parse the
string to get name / value pairs("name = joe", "game = tennis", "fame =
none").

[Govindan]

Re: What is parsing?


"maRIO5" <mario_zupan@in et.hr> wrote in message
news:bgp983$9r9 $1@sunce.iskon. hr...[color=blue]
> What it means parsing?
> Can you give me a practical example.
> --
> dk[/color]

Parsing means identifying the special tokens from a given string and storing
them for use later.
For example, when a program is input into a compiler, the variables with
special meaning (tokens)
in the program are parsed .