Compiler Design

In computer science, Lexeme refers to which of the following?

• A. The compiler phase that improves intermediate or final code to make it run faster or use fewer resources.
• B. A program that translates an entire source program written in a high-level language into machine code before execution.
• C. A sequence of characters in source code that matches the pattern for a token. ✓
• D. A tree representation showing the syntactic structure of source code according to grammar rules.