[antlr-interest] lexer issue - \ has double meaning in our rules‏

[Jason Hocker]

An end of statement in our language is the end of the line.  Strings can be surrounded by double quotes, single quotes, or backslash.  The backslash can also have another meeting as a different symbol.  So I want a STRINGLITERAL when there are two backslashes on the same line, with everything in between as part of the string, or I want a separate token just for the backslash.  In my lexer, its starting down the stringliteral path, and then throwing an error that it cant match the last token.
Any suggestions?

BACKSLASH : '\\';

STRINGLITERAL : ('"' (~('"' | '\n' | '\r'))* '"')
 | ('\'' (~('\'' | '\n' | '\r'))* '\'')
 | ('\\' (~('\\' | '\n' | '\r'))* '\\')

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