[antlr-interest] controlled input stream parsing

[Alexey Demakov]

From: "rbohn777" <rbohn777 at yahoo.com>
> I'm new to antlr, so I'm writing a simple CSV parser.  In my grammar,
> each line is referred to as a record.  What I want to do is have the
> parser and lexer only consume as much needed from the input stream
> until it finds a record and then stop until a client requests the next
> record at which it will pull from the input stream again until it
> finds the next record.  Is this possible?

Yes, it is possible, but it is not antlr responsibility.
You can read a string from input stream on each request and pass it 
(using StringReader) to antlr to parse.

Regards,
Alexey

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Alexey Demakov
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