[antlr-interest] ast rewrite

[Terence Parr]

On Dec 4, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Alexander Gängel wrote:

> Ok I found it in the wiki:
>
> STRING: '\"' CHARS '\"' {setText(getText().substring(1, getText 
> ().length()));} ;
>
> but with this I still have the tailing '
>
> I thins the wiki is wrong in this point. (I'mnot sure if I just  
> misssomething)

Hi Alexander.  I think it's okay, because the Java API for String  
says "The substring begins at the specified beginIndex and extends to  
the character at index endIndex - 1."

> I now use this:
>
> String    :
>     '\''  ~('\'')* '\''   {setText(getText().substring(1, getText 
> ().length()-1));}
>     ;

Does that work? are you not missing the last character before the  
last quote?

Ter