Difference between Parsing and Passing?

I know this is basic knowledge but whenever you give parameters to a method are you 'parsing' them, or are you 'passing' them as 'parsing' could be something different?!

I'v开发者_如何学JAVAe just never been overly sure!

Thanks

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You are passing them.

"Parsing" means trying to interpret text or strings and break it down into data elements of some kind. (For example, you could parse a string describing a date to turn it into a date object, or parse a file containing source code and turn it into an executable.)

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Passing. Parsing is breaking up / interpreting strings.

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Each spelling could equally be synonymous e.g. when parsing a date just before passing it into a function.