[antlr-interest] getting data from a grammar

[Micha]

On Monday 04 May 2009 21:08:50 Brian Nelson wrote:
> The input would be "aa, bb, cc" and I simply want a list of
> ['aa','bb','cc']. I am not trying to process it, just get the list out
> of it, ignoring the commas, in a variable I can use.
>
>     prog : rone (COMMA rone)*
>            ;
>
>     rone : IDENT;
>
>     IDENT: 'a'..'z' ('a'..'z')*;
>     COMMA: ',';
>

for this I would do (in java):
String idents[] = text.split(",");

then, if needed:
for (String s: idents) {
	if (!s.matches("[a..z]([a..z])*")) throw new Argh();
}



cheers
 Michael