[antlr-interest] 2 questions

[Harsh Deshmane]

Hi Martin,

thanks for the help.

-harsh
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 15:45, Martin Probst wrote:
> Hi,
> you can have your Lexer return a token on line endings, e.g.
> LINEENDING:
>   '\n';
> and then just match that token in your rule. Or you can of course use
> regular expressions ... ;-)
>
> Not necessarily about this, but I really have the impression that many
> people who are asking questions on this list would probably be better
> off with some regular expressions ...
>
> Martin
>
> Am Dienstag, den 13.09.2005, 15:11 -0700 schrieb Harsh Deshmane:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have two questions:
> > a. How do you search the archives of the mailing list ?
> > b. for the grammar, I need to specifically capture patterns that start
> > from the first character of the line, how do I do that ?
> >
> > for example,
> >
> > M43blah  xx yy zz
> >
> > Here, the letter "M" in the first location is important.
> > Similarly for other key"letters"
> > In regular expressions, it would be "^M" that I am looking for..
> >
> > thanks for any help.
> > -harsh