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| | Glossary of Parsing Terms |
 | | A parser is a program, or more likely a procedure within a program, which scans a sequence of input characters or input tokens and accumulates them in an input buffer or stack as determined by a set of productions which constitute a grammar. |
 | | A parser generator, such as AnaGram, is a program that converts a grammar, a rule-based description of the input to a program, into a conventional, procedural module called a parser. |
 | | The tokens identified by a parser are concrete instances of the abstract tokens in the grammar. |
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