[antlr-interest] Comment rule matches links

[Jenny Balfer]

Hi everybody,

I am pretty new to antlr and I am facing a problem that I could not find a
solution for.

I am using the "standard" rule for single line comments:

COMMENT : '//' (options {greedy=false;}: .)* ('\n'|'r')  { skip(); }
        ;

This works pretty well, until I have things like that in my code:

aString = "http://someUrl.com";

Because the url contains two slashes, the lexer treats everything from then
on as a comment and skips the rest of the line; only aString = "http:
remains.

I tried to fight this problem by adding a rule that matches every string
before the comment rule:

STRING : '"' (options {greedy=false;} .)* '"'
       ;

This temporarily solved the problem, but brought up further issues, so I
would really appreciate to get along without it. Does anyone have a better
solution to prevent my lexer from skipping urls just because they contain
slashes?

Thanks in advance.

Jenny