[antlr-interest] Beginer's question, not fitting in subject

[Scott Stanchfield]

I should note that I meant to use the RegEx for each line after reading the
line using the BufferedReader.

Later,
- Scott 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org 
> [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Scott 
> Stanchfield
> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:29 AM
> To: 'Alexandre'; antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Beginer's question, not fitting 
> in subject
> 
> Seriously... I think ANTLR is overkill for items like this.
> 
> Whenever you have line-oriented input and all lines have the 
> same format, I'd recommend using good old BufferedReader to 
> read the lines and StringTokenizer to separate them.
> 
> If you want a little more checking to see if the parens and 
> commas are actually there, then you'll want to use a Java 
> regular expression (Pattern +
> Matcher) if you can use Java 1.4 or later.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> -- Scott
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org 
> > [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre
> > Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:23 AM
> > To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> > Subject: [antlr-interest] Beginer's question, not fitting in subject
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a classic, I guess, question. The language I am trying to 
> > define cannot be represented by a grammar, as it is of the form 
> > (a)n(b)n. What my file must do is something like defining 
> tuples, that 
> > is series of elements. Suppose that the syntax to define a serie of 
> > values a serie of variables can have is something like :
> > (X1, X2, X3)
> > (1, 2, 3)
> > (4, 5, 6)
> > 
> > Of course the number of variables is totally arbitrary, but for a 
> > given number, the number the values in each following tuple 
> of values 
> > must be the same. How can I make that with antlr ? I 
> thought about not 
> > having antlr detecting it, that is to accept any list of the form 
> > (..,..) for the values, and then treat (in Java) the result 
> of each, 
> > and throwing if necessary an exception. But that isn't pretty 
> > beautiful.
> > 
> > Do you have any suggestion ?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Alexandre
> > 
> 
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