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[Bart Kiers]

Hi James,

Try this:

STRING_LITERAL: '\'' (~'\'' | '\'\'')* '\'';

Note that the string above may contain line breaks. If you don't want that,
do:

STRING_LITERAL: '\'' (~('\'' | '\r' | '\n') | '\'\'')* '\'';

Regards,

Bart.


On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:03 AM, James Ladd <james_ladd at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I hope this isnt too trivial to post to the list but im wondering how to
> change
> my rule to capture nested quotes?
>
> STRING_LITERAL: '\'' .* '\'';
>
> A string can be anything enclosed in single quotes. However I also need to
> cater for
> a nested double quote. Eg: 'this string has a '' in it.'
>
> Rgs, James.
>
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