[antlr-interest] How to handle blackslashes correctly?

[Pop Qvarnström]

Could you provide your grammar, or relevant parts of it?

Cheers,
Pop

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Hiran Chaudhuri <Hiran.Chaudhuri at web.de>wrote:

> Hello everybody.
>
> I've got input files with different meaning for backslashes. Therefore my
> lexer does not really know how to generate the tokens and the parser does
> not what I want it to do. Maybe someone can help me checking this?
> A backslash before a linefeed means the linefeed is just whitespace,
> whereas elsewhere it is not.
> A backslash in some regions of the file is meant to be part of a file path
> (Windows).
> A backslash in some regions of the file is part of a regular expression.
> I'm not interested in parsing that, so it shall be handled like a string
> value.
> A backslash before a quote inside a quoted string means the quote does not
> terminate the string.
>
> I've created a grammar that can handle all cases from my point of view. Now
> let's look at one fragment:
>
> BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
>
> This should be parsed as
> Keyword BrowserMatch
> value   \bMSIE
> not     !
> value   no-gzip!gzip-only-text/html
> not     !
> value   gzip-only-text/html
>
> but it is parsed as
> Keyword BrowserMatch
> unknown \b
> value   MSIE
> ...
>
> My expression for value allows backslash and the necessary letters, still
> the parser thinks it should not recognize this value.
> What can be the reason for that?
>
> Hiran
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