[antlr-interest] Newbie question: ignoring tokens, or is there a better way?

[Daniel Pitts]

Basically,  my input is something like:
 
something{
value: >>>
This is the text
<<<
}
 
I want a rule that can give me as a value "This is the text".
I've tried: 
 
LQS: LQSS *options {greedy=false;} : .)* LQSE;
LQSS : '>>>\n';
LQSE: '\n<<<';
 
and I've tried using channel=HIDDEN on LQSS and LQSE, but then I get
errors while parsing other parts of my source.
 
I have a work around, but its ugly.  I have a rule 
 
lstring returns [String value]: LQS
{value=$LQS.getText().replaceFirst(">>>\n","").replaceFirst("\n<<<$",
"");};
 
but that seems like an awful big hack.  Any suggestions?
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