[antlr-interest] Manipulating lexer text output
Gavin Lambert
antlr at mirality.co.nz
Tue Apr 3 14:00:10 PDT 2007
At 06:54 4/04/2007, Jim Idle wrote:
>Yeah - this has come up a lot and really the solution at the
moment
>is to do this in the parser. However you could at least do this
in
>the STRING rule with a call to a small function that removed
this stuff
>and then emit the token with the result as the text.
That'd still require double-parsing the input though (once via
ANTLR's normal processing, and once after the fact to resolve
escape sequences). Which makes it no better than doing it outside
ANTLR entirely.
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