Difference between Parsing and Passing?

Question

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

I've just never been overly sure!

Thanks

Answer 1

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.)

Answer 2

Passing. Parsing is breaking up / interpreting strings.