Is it a Lexer's Job to Parse Numbers and Strings?

Question

Is it a lexer\'s job to parse numbers and strings?

This may or may not sound dumb, given that fact that I\'m asking whether a lexer should parse in

Answer 1

A lexer essentially identifies TOKENs from the input. In this case, the lexer will possibly "match" the number as a float number TOKEN. The parser essentially processes tokens and does syntax analysis