="fsharp"><span
     class="ci">skipString</span></code> &#x201C;skips&#x201D; over a string, but we haven’t yet explained what it actually means for a <code
     class="fsharp"><a href="../reference/primitives.html#members.Parser"><span class="ci">Parser</span></a></code> function to &#x201C;parse&#x201D;
     a letter or &#x201C;skip&#x201D; a string. That’s what we will do in this chapter. To explain how <code class="fsharp"><a
     href="../reference/primitives.html#members.Parser"><span class="ci">