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In performing parsing, before starting, the grammar for the language needs to be specified. A source of tokens is also needed for the parser. The parser could be hand-written code, or a parser generator tool could be used. If a parser generator tool is used, then that tool will need to be downloade...

For example, in the sentence: That cake is extremely nice. The rules of the English language would make cake a noun, extremely an adverb that modifies the adjective nice, and through this analysis the meaning could be understood. However, this analysis is dependent on us recognising that the...

The simplest way to write a parser is to use the recursive descent technique. This creates a top-down parser (which may formally be described a LL(1)). To start the example we first have to establish the grammar rules for our language. In this example we will use simple arithmetic expression assignm...