[antlr-interest] Read multiple times

[John B. Brodie]

Greetings!

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 15:24 -0700, Hiten R wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a very simple problem described below and I don`t have a best way to
> solve it. The idea is to parse values in each Basket and populate POJO
> representing the Basket.
> 
> Basket 200
>    state California 246
>    employee 678
>    phone 555-9000 ext 90009
>    zip 0909090
> Basket 300
>    state NY 787
>    emp.....
>    phone .......
>    zip......
> 
> My parser parses the first line 'state California 246' and then moves to
> another basket. I want to recursively parse each line under basket and at
> the end populate POJO and then move to another basket.
> 

use a loop! your collection is apparently 1 or more baskets, thus

collection : basket + EOF ;
basket : bannerPhrase stateClause empClause phoneClause zipClause ;
bannerPhrase : 'Basket' ... ;
stateCaluse : 'state' ... ;
empClause : 'employee' ... ;
phoneClause : 'phone' ... ;
zipClause : 'zip' ... ; 

and of course need to add appropriate actions in order to populate your
data structure.


However, from your supplied grammar fragment, i suspect you will have
significant ambiguity issues with your definition of TOKEN.


Hope this helps...
   -jbb