[antlr-interest] Lexer predicates

[Meena Moktali]

u have to define the character ':' for example as token COLON and then 
setType as COLON.Have u done that?
See the examples provided along with the ANTLR installations.There are many examples.

regs,
Meena

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcel Cerveny [mailto:mcerveny at gmail.com]
Sent: 12. april 2005 12:14
To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
Subject: [antlr-interest] Lexer predicates


Hi,
I need to parse output of a custom made program. It can produce
messages consisting of arbitrary ascii chars. Thus, I tried to make my
lexer rule:

protected LETTER : (('!'..'~')) => ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z')
                                   | (':')   { $setType(COLON); }
                                   | ('\\')  { $setType(BSLASH); }
                                   | ('(')   { $setType(LPAREN); }
                                   | (')')   { $setType(RPAREN); }
                                   | ('!'..'~') { $setType(ASCIISYM); }
;

Now, I still get error message:
error: Lexer rule COLON is not defined

I really do not know why is that. Anny suggestions?
Thanx in advance.