Parsing and tokenisation are usually (at least conceptually) separate steps. Your example almost certainly tokenizes as selectcount, (, *, ), fromtable. It's pl

Parsing and tokenisation are usually (at least conceptually) separate steps. Your example almost certainly tokenizes as selectcount, (, *, ), fromtable. It's plausible "select 123abc" would tokenize as select, 123, abc because of a code quirk.