What is parsing?

[maRIO5]

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

[Dave Miller]

In article <bg**********@sunce.iskon.hr>, ma*********@inet.hr says...

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

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=none". You would parse the
string to get name / value pairs("name = joe", "game = tennis", "fame =
none").

[Govindan]

"maRIO5" <ma*********@inet.hr> wrote in message
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What it means parsing?
Can you give me a practical example.
--
dk

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 .