[antlr-interest] Grammar for block comments?

[Jim Idle]

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 18:45 +0100, Andy Doddington wrote:

> I am trying to write a grammar that includes support for C-style block
> comments - i.e. bracketed by '/*' and '*/'.
> 
> I have taken the example in the cpp.g grammar on the antlr web site, which
> appears as shown below:
> 
> 	COMMENT: '/*'  ( options {greedy=false;} : . )*  '*/' { _channel=99; };
> 
> Unfortunately, when this encounters a comment containing asterisks, I get the error:
> 
>         line <line>:<column> mismatched character '*' expecting '/'
> 
> Is there any better solution, that avoids this problem?


What version of ANTLR are you using here?

Jim
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