[antlr-interest] I don't understand.....

[Silvain Piree]

> why this (stupid) grammar has problem ?
>    file: (name | number) +;
>    name: (CHAR) + ;
>    number: (DIGIT) + ;

Given input "AB C" this could parse as:

    name (A)  name (B)  name (C)
 
or 

    name (ABC)

So there's a conflict. 

If you want to do it like this, then you probably want to return
space as token to separate names (and numbers).

Silvain



 

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