Can someone explain what does it mean to parse in simple terms? or What does it mean to parse, and wh

ever tried reading a messy note you scribbled? parsing is like cleaning that up so it makes sense.

in tech, it’s the same—taking messy or structured data and making it usable.

example: parsing a log file to find errors, or parsing user input to avoid bugs.

if you’re working with APIs, you’ll parse JSON/XML responses all the time.