[antlr-interest] How to handle multicharacter delimiters?

[Jim Idle]

FREETEXT:	{flgFreeText}?=> ( { ! (LA(1) == '$' && LA(2) == 'e' && LA(3) == 'n' && LA(4) == 'd') }?=> .)+;

Should do it I think?

Jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Lentvorski
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:18 PM
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> It bombs since the '$' ceases matching FREETEXT but doesn't match a new
> token (strictly speaking, it matches ANY which then fails in the
> grammar).  Fine.  What I really want is "match any character unless
> it's
> part of the phrase "$end" in that order") a la: