[antlr-interest] Dealing with issues in non-greedy (.)* rules

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Jun 12 09:31:12 PDT 2007


On Jun 12, 2007, at 7:30 AM, Marc-André Laverdière wrote:

> Hmm... I had to put this issue aside for a certain time, but now  
> I'm back on it.
>
> I still have no idea what to do to make this work! If (.)+ won't do  
> it, what will? I can't believe that Antlr isn't dealing with a  
> random blob.

.+ works fine in the lexer and probably parser.  Consumes until it  
sees what follows.

>
> BTW, I'm generating code with AntlrWorks... is there any bug in its  
> code generation vs the command-line utility?

nope same.

Ter


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