noun
- a computer program that analyzes text or code to identify its grammatical structure or components
Usage: computing
Examples
- The HTML parser identified all the tags in the web page.
- Our compiler uses a sophisticated parser to analyze the source code.
- The XML parser detected several syntax errors in the document.
- She wrote a parser to extract data from the log files.
- The language parser broke down each sentence into its grammatical parts.
- The JSON parser converted the text into a usable data structure.