[antlr-interest] EOF in Lexer- how to?

[Alexey Demakov]

Make NewLine at the end of single line comment optional:

SingleLineComment :"//" ( ~('\r' | '\n') )* ( NewLine )? ;

It will match NewLine everywhere except

// comment text <EOF>

Regards,
Alexey

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Alexey Demakov
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tomasz Jastrzebski
To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:03 PM
Subject: [antlr-interest] EOF in Lexer- how to?


Hi Everybody,

Is it possible to recognize EOF in the lexer?

Ok, why would someone wanted to do it in the first place?
Lets suppose I want my lexer to recognize a SingleLineComment, let's say Java "// com ment" style. My lexer rules should look more 
or less like this:
NewLine :(options{greedy=true;}:"\r\n" | '\r' | '\n' ) ;
SingleLineComment :"//" ( ~('\r' | '\n') )* NewLine ;

But there is a problem here. What if my input stream consists of only single comment and no NewLine? E.g.
// comment text <EOF>
This lexer will not recognize such an input correctly.
That is why I w ant my lexer to be able to treat EOF as NewLine.

However it seems like I can not use or define EOF token within Lexer. An attempt to use '\uFFFF' within the NewLine rule seems to 
block the lexer and lead to unpredictable results.

I would appreciate any help.