[antlr-interest] Easier way to do string literals?
Vaclav Barta
vbar at comp.cz
Mon Oct 15 12:32:19 PDT 2007
On Monday 15 October 2007 21:08:55 Gavin Lambert wrote:
> At 21:37 15/10/2007, Vaclav Barta wrote:
> >Is there really no way to parse C-like string literals in one
> >pass?
> Not no way, it's just tricky :)
Indeed.
> I seem to vaguely recall ANTLR not liking something similar to the
> syntax I've used in StringChar, so you might need to move the
> action code for that up into the STRING rule.
> I also don't recall if you need to escape the backslashes in the
> append calls in EscapeSequence or not. So you'll probably need to
> experiment a bit.
OK, thanks for the explanation. Next time I'm implementing C, I'll surely give
it a try. :-)
Bye
Vasek
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