lexer

Anglais

Étymologie

De lex avec le suffixe -er.

Nom commun

lexer \ˈlɛk.sə˞\

1. (Informatique) lexeur.
   • A large number of parsing problems are easier to solve with a regular expression than by creating a special-purpose lexer and parser. — (Doug Hellmann, The Python 3 Standard Library by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2017, p.13)