Which of the following best describes the role of a lexical analyzer in a…

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Answer: D. It partitions the source code into tokens and removes comments and white spaces. — A lexical analyzer tokenizes source code into tokens and removes whitespace/comments.

1. A.

   It converts high-level source code into assembly code.

2. B.

   It checks semantic consistency in the program.

3. C.

   It builds the symbol table during code generation.

4. D.

   It partitions the source code into tokens and removes comments and white spaces.

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