[antlr-interest] Grammar definition problem

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Hello,

I'm a ANTLR newbie and have a problem to define the right grammar for the
following input.
- one input line is one record
- the structure is: <fieldname> <one colon followed by one or more spaces as
delimiter> <fieldvalue> <newline>*
- the fieldnames are known

My problem is, than the fieldvalue can have colon or space characters too.

This is my grammar:

grammar Foo;

options {
    output=AST;
    ASTLabelType=CommonTree;
}

entry    : fieldname FIELDSEPERATOR  fieldvalue '\n'*
    ;

fieldvalue    : ID
    ;

fieldname: NAME
    |GIVENNAME
    |STREET
    |ZIP
    |CITY
    |COUNTRY
    |TEXT
    ;

NAME            : 'Name';
GIVENNAME         : 'Givenname';
STREET         : 'Street';
ZIP            : 'Zip';
CITY            : 'City';
COUNTRY        : 'Country';
TEXT            : 'Text';

FIELDSEPERATOR    : ':' ' '+
    ;

ID    : AllowedChars+
    ;

fragment
AllowedChars    : 'A'..'Z'
    | 'a'..'z'
    | '0'..'9'
    | '+'
    | '-'
    | ' '
//    | ':'
    | '#'
    | '.'
    ;


If i try the input "Text:      Free Text with # sign" it works. But if i do
not comment the ':' in the AllowedChars and try the input "Text:      Free
Text with : sign" it goes wrong :-(

How can i solve this problem????

Thank's


Matthias
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