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In a compiler the module that checks every character of the source text is called:

  1. The code generator.
  2. The code optimiser.
  3. The lexical analyser.
  4. The syntax analyser.
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The first phase of compiler is known as lexical analyser,it is also known as scanner because it scans the whole program so it checks every character of the source text.Hence answer is C
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