[antlr-interest] How can I modify the text of certain tokens in a CommonTokenStream?

Gavin Lambert antlr at mirality.co.nz
Thu Feb 11 01:38:01 PST 2010


At 19:16 11/02/2010, Matthew McDole wrote:
 >So, I should attempt to set the tokens text in the IDENTIFIER
 >definition in java.g?
 >
 >I tried something like this:
 >
 >IDENTIFIER
 >    :   IdentifierStart IdentifierPart*
 >    {
 >        $setText("V");
 >    }
 >    ;
 >
 >Which gave me: Java.g:1813:5: attribute is not a token, 
parameter,
 >or return value: setText
 >Is IDENTIFIER not a token?

$setText is an ANTLR v2-ism.  If you're using v3, you want 
setText.  (No $.)



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