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Today I read that

The scanner is a subroutine which is frequently called by an application program like a compiler. The primary function of a scanner is to combine characters from the input stream into recognizable units called tokens.

But isn't it the job of lexical analyzer? Are they both the same?

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Yes. These are two different words for the same thing. I've also heard it called a lexer sometimes.

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