[antlr-interest] newbie, need help!

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5/11/2010 11:37 AM keltezéssel, Terry Ma írta:
> hello, everyone.
>
> I want to parse the statement like following:
>
> any character<#if expression>  any character</#if>  any character
>
> I want to consume any character until find<#if ...>,
> and then consume any character until find next</#if>,
> and so on.
>
> can i use antlr to do this?
> i don't know how to write the grammar to parse the above statement.
>
>
> Terry.
>
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Do you mean something like this:

grammar if;


start_rule    : anythingbefore anythinguntilclosingif;

anythingbefore:  ( options {greedy=false;} : . )* '<#if';


anythinguntilclosingif
     :    ( options {greedy=false;} : . )* '</#if>';


Marton