[antlr-interest] Parsing fields in a CSV file

[Andy Tripp]

Rick Schumeyer wrote:

> Another alternative, which sounds crazy but I'll ask anyway, is to write 
> a separate parser that only parses the above date/time field, and call 
> that parser from within the rule that receives the timestamp field. 

I think that's actually the easiest way: let ANTLR's lexer just see the
whole date as a single string, and then parse the date into individual
fields separately. You could do that with another ANTLR parser, "by hand",
or (if using Java) use the DateFormat class and its parse() method.

Andy