[antlr-interest] ANTLR Matching Behavior

[Ric Klaren]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:24:29AM -0000, madison_stjames wrote:
> Can you use the "dot" notation in ANTLR?

Yes. Lexer and Treeparsers support it for sure.. Parser I'm not sure about.
Think it is hidden in the docs somewhere (I hope). 

> For example, can I write something like (.) - match anything
> or (.){1-3) - one to three of any one character.

The {1-3} thing you have to implement manually in actions or other checks.

Cheers,

Ric
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