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Parsing text is a very common and important operation. Monadic parser combinators are a convenient mechanism to build parsers by combining building blocks, and a good illustration of the practical use of a monad. (We will cover monads in more detail in week 6.)

Each parser is a higher-order function that returns a function. The parser combinators combine these functions into the final parser.

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