[antlr-interest] largest match

[mzukowski at bco.com]

Are you using literals?  What does your ID rule look like where you have the
testLiterals=true option on?

Sounds to me like you have a hard coded lexer rule like

INT:"int"; 

and you should be using literals instead.

Monty

> -----Original Message-----
> From: etoffi2 [mailto:etoffi2 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:22 AM
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> Subject: [antlr-interest] largest match
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> 
> hello all,
> 
> is there a way to make antlr match the longest token?
> i have a language parser which is returning keywords instead of
> idents:
> 
> TOK_INTEGER instead of TOK_IDENT for:
>  
>   int integer;
>       ^^^
> 
> this is really killing my compiler. 
> thanx in advance.
> 
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> etoffi
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