[antlr-interest] How can you ignore White Space but record the last white space character used ?

[Silvain Piree]

John,

> However,  is there an easy way to get it to record the fact that
> a space has been detected so that this can be passed to the 
> Parser ?

You can use the HiddenTokenStream to pass whitespace
tokens to your parser. See the "preserveWhiteSpace" example
in the ANTLR examples directory.

Also, see the documentation of ANTLR about token streams.

Silvain




 

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