parser

n.

1.

One who parses.

Noun

1.

parser - a computer program that divides code up into functional components; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code"

(language)

parser - An algorithm or program to determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some language. A parser normally takes as input a sequence of tokens output by a lexical analyser. It may produce some kind of abstract syntax tree as output. One of the best known parser generators is yacc.

compiler, compiling program, computer program, computer programme, program, programme