[antlr-interest] Floats and Integers

[Tom Zagotta]

Hello everyone,
 
I have a grammar that needs to accept both floating-point numbers and
integers. A simplified form of the grammar (whitespace skipping not shown)
is like this:

class TestParser extends Parser;
abc:"ABC" FLOAT INT;
 
class TestLexer extends Lexer;
INT: ('0'..'9')+;
FLOAT: INT '.' INT;

The problem I have is with input like this:

ABC 3 5

In this case, I need the "3" to match the FLOAT token for the abc rule. It
seems that the only way to do this is to change the rule to the following:

abc: "ABC" (FLOAT|INT) INT;

But the problem with that is that there are a really large number of such
rules in my grammar.
 
Is there a better/alternative way to handle this? Ideally I'd like to define
a token that can match both int and float, but I still need a separate token
for int. It seems this is not possible.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
- Tom
 
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