Example

Suppose the following are two input lines for X-PLOR:

this is {comment}  a (test):   method=testing  procedure=   
parsing   ! comment

The information that X-PLOR will receive from the parsing routines will then consist of a stream of words

THIS
IS
A 
(
TEST
)
:
METHOD
=
TESTING 
PROCEDURE
=
PARSING

In particular, the spacing and the carriage return have no influence on the interpretation of the input.