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<A HREF="#index.htm">Parse Library</A>: 1.1 <A HREF="#Parse_1.htm">Parse Library Behavior</A>: 
The Scanner</H3>
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The scanner translates a text string into a sequence of tokens. The tokens can then be processed by the parser. Every token is associated with some data.</P>
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The scanner can be treated as a part of the parser. It is never used independently; instead, the parser is called on to parse a string, and the parser calls the sca