[antlr-interest] Escaping quotes in a lexer

Gavin Lambert antlr at mirality.co.nz
Wed Mar 25 02:21:55 PDT 2009


At 22:04 25/03/2009, Emanuele Gesuato wrote:
 >I'm sorry i haven't understad how could i use your code snippet.
 >
 >I've tried to prefix/append your snippet to my code but antlr
 >refuses to compile.
[...]
 >> STRING : '\'' ('\\' ('\'')? | ~('\\' | '\''))* '\'';

The rule I posted was for v3.  If you're using v2 then you'll need 
to use " quotes instead of ' quotes.



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