[antlr-interest] Is '!' operator working with ANTLR 3.1.2

[Jim Idle]

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This operator is not supported in ANTLR3 for performance reasons. But if the
pieces you don't want are at the start or end, then you can just change the
start and/or end points of the token.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Frankson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 4:51 AM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: [antlr-interest] Is '!' operator working with ANTLR 3.1.2
> 
> 
> When I call my parser with -> EXT.MyFunc() The value returned by
> $EXTERNAL_CALL.getText() is 'EXT.MyFunc' where I would expect to have
> only 'MyFunc' (because I'm using the '!' operator in the lexer here
> below).
> 
> fragment INT		: ('0'..'9');
> fragment ALPHA 		: ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'_');
> fragment ID			: ALPHA (ALPHA | INT)*;
> 
> EXTERNAL_CALL: 'EXT.'! ID;
> 
> 
> rule: EXTERNAL_CALL '(' { stack.push(new
> FuncName($EXTERNAL_CALL.getText())); } (expressList { ... } )? ')'
> expressList: ...;
> 
> 
> Any idea why the '!' operator looks like not working ? What am I doing
> wrong ?
> 
> Thank you.
> Philippe Frankson
> 
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