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Question

What is Parsing ?

Aug 15, 2016 2:21AM PDT

Trying to download app. Keep getting error message: There is a problem Parsing the package.

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Re: parsing
Aug 15, 2016 3:01AM PDT
https://www.google.com/?client=firefox-b#q=parse+definition

Broadly speaking, it's syntactic analysis. Kind of programmer-speak. Assuming there isn't an error in your PC or laptop or phone or whatever in the program that does the parsing, it's a corrupted or incorrect file you downloaded or your antivirus interfering, because it thinks it's harmful.
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RE- What is Parsing
Aug 23, 2016 2:51AM PDT

Parsing - Breaking a data block into smaller chunks by following a set of rules, so that it can be more easily interpreted, managed, or transmitted by a computer. Spreadsheet programs, for example, parse a data to fit it into a cell of certain size.

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parsing
Aug 24, 2016 3:17AM PDT

Parsing or syntactic analysis is the process of analysing a string of symbols, either in natural language or in computer languages, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar.