diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index ae59f40..63ea784 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ pub mod cli;
 pub mod command;
 pub mod meta_commands;
 pub mod statements;
+pub mod tokens;
diff --git a/src/tokens.rs b/src/tokens.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ee06a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tokens.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,258 @@
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub enum TokenData {
+    /// INSERT
+    Insert,
+    /// SELECT
+    Select,
+    /// 0, 1, -21635, 867463
+    Integer(i64),
+    /// Hello World!
+    String(String),
+    /// No file O.O?
+    EndOfFile,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Location {
+    /// file name
+    pub file: String,
+    /// Since start of file
+    pub offset: usize,
+    /// Length of the litteral
+    pub length: usize,
+}
+
+impl Location {
+    /// ```
+    /// use osdb::tokens::Location;
+    /// let location = Location::new(String::from("src/statement.sql"), 0, 10);
+    /// assert_eq!(location.file, "src/statement.sql");
+    /// assert_eq!(location.offset, 0);
+    /// assert_eq!(location.length, 10);
+    /// ```
+    pub fn new(file: String, offset: usize, length: usize) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            file,
+            offset,
+            length,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Token {
+    /// Where in the input was this token found?
+    pub location: Location,
+    /// What is in it?
+    pub data: TokenData,
+    /// What did it look like while being parsed?
+    pub lexeme: String,
+}
+
+struct Tokenizer {
+    input: String,
+    file: String,
+    tokens: Vec<Token>,
+    offset: usize,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub enum ScanErrorKind {
+    UnexpectedChar(char),
+    UnexpectedEndOfInput,
+    UnknownKeyword(String),
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub struct ScanError {
+    pub location: Location,
+    pub kind: ScanErrorKind,
+}
+
+impl Tokenizer {
+    fn new(input: String, file: String) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            input,
+            file,
+            tokens: Vec::new(),
+            offset: 0,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn current_location(&self, length: usize) -> Location {
+        Location::new(self.file.clone(), self.offset, length)
+    }
+
+    fn is_at_end(&self) -> bool {
+        self.offset >= self.input.len()
+    }
+
+    fn peek(&self) -> Option<char> {
+        self.input.chars().nth(self.offset)
+    }
+
+    fn advance(&mut self) -> Option<char> {
+        let c = self.input.chars().nth(self.offset);
+        self.offset += 1;
+        c
+    }
+
+    fn recognize_keyword(word: &str) -> Option<TokenData> {
+        match word.to_lowercase().as_str() {
+            "insert" => Some(TokenData::Insert),
+            "select" => Some(TokenData::Select),
+            _ => None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn scan_identifier_or_keyword(&mut self) -> Result<Token, ScanError> {
+        let start_offset = self.offset;
+        let mut word = String::new();
+        let mut length = 0;
+        if let Some(c) = self.advance() {
+            word.push(c);
+            length += 1;
+        }
+        while let Some(c) = self.peek() {
+            if Self::ident_or_keyword_inner(c) {
+                word.push(c);
+                self.advance();
+            } else {
+                break;
+            }
+            length += 1;
+        }
+        if let Some(keyword) = Self::recognize_keyword(&word) {
+            Ok(Token {
+                location: Location::new(self.file.clone(), start_offset, length),
+                data: keyword,
+                lexeme: word,
+            })
+        } else {
+            Err(ScanError {
+                location: Location::new(self.file.clone(), start_offset, length),
+                kind: ScanErrorKind::UnknownKeyword(word),
+            })
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn ident_or_keyword_start(c: char) -> bool {
+        c.is_alphabetic() || c == '_'
+    }
+
+    fn ident_or_keyword_inner(c: char) -> bool {
+        c.is_alphanumeric() || c == '_'
+    }
+
+    fn scan_token(&mut self) -> Result<Token, ScanError> {
+        loop {
+            if let Some(c) = self.peek() {
+                if Self::ident_or_keyword_start(c) {
+                    return self.scan_identifier_or_keyword();
+                } else if c.is_whitespace() {
+                    self.advance();
+                } else {
+                    self.advance();
+                    return Err(ScanError {
+                        location: self.current_location(1),
+                        kind: ScanErrorKind::UnexpectedChar(c),
+                    });
+                }
+            } else {
+                return Err(ScanError {
+                    location: self.current_location(0),
+                    kind: ScanErrorKind::UnexpectedEndOfInput,
+                });
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn finalize(&mut self) {
+        self.tokens.push(Token {
+            location: self.current_location(0),
+            data: TokenData::EndOfFile,
+            lexeme: String::new(),
+        });
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn tokenize(input: String, file: String) -> Result<Vec<Token>, Vec<ScanError>> {
+    let mut tokenizer = Tokenizer::new(input, file);
+    let mut errors = Vec::new();
+    while !tokenizer.is_at_end() {
+        match tokenizer.scan_token() {
+            Ok(token) => tokenizer.tokens.push(token),
+            Err(err) => errors.push(err),
+        }
+    }
+    tokenizer.finalize();
+    if errors.is_empty() {
+        Ok(tokenizer.tokens)
+    } else {
+        Err(errors)
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_tokenizer() {
+    let mut scanresult =
+        tokenize("INSERT Select".to_string(), "src/statement.sql".to_string()).unwrap();
+    scanresult.reverse();
+    assert_eq!(
+        scanresult.pop(),
+        Some(Token {
+            location: Location::new(String::from("src/statement.sql"), 0, 6),
+            data: TokenData::Insert,
+            lexeme: String::from("INSERT"),
+        })
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        scanresult.pop(),
+        Some(Token {
+            location: Location::new(String::from("src/statement.sql"), 7, 6),
+            data: TokenData::Select,
+            lexeme: String::from("Select"),
+        })
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        scanresult.pop(),
+        Some(Token {
+            location: Location::new(String::from("src/statement.sql"), 13, 0),
+            data: TokenData::EndOfFile,
+            lexeme: String::from(""),
+        })
+    );
+    assert_eq!(scanresult.pop(), None);
+    assert!(scanresult.is_empty());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_tokenizer_errors() {
+    let mut scanerrors = tokenize("salact +".to_string(), "src/statement.sql".to_string())
+        .err()
+        .unwrap();
+    scanerrors.reverse();
+    assert_eq!(
+        scanerrors.pop(),
+        Some(ScanError {
+            location: Location {
+                file: "src/statement.sql".to_string(),
+                offset: 0,
+                length: 6,
+            },
+            kind: ScanErrorKind::UnknownKeyword("salact".to_string()),
+        })
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        scanerrors.pop(),
+        Some(ScanError {
+            location: Location {
+                file: "src/statement.sql".to_string(),
+                offset: 8,
+                length: 1,
+            },
+            kind: ScanErrorKind::UnexpectedChar('+'),
+        })
+    );
+    assert!(scanerrors.is_empty());
+}