[antlr-interest] How to have strings enclosed in " and/or "

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Fri Dec 10 09:51:07 PST 2004



On Dec 10, 2004, at 2:43 AM, matthew ford wrote:
> Yes I do
> I stop the string when I meet
> either "  or "  by themselves

Hmm...doesn't seem right to me.  For example, here is some text that 
should be one string...OR not depending on your interpretation; has 
somebody in HTML land just dictated which way it goes like 
if-then-else?

" foo " and more "

Ter

> if I meet
> "" or "" or "" or ""
> Then this is not the end of the string just an escaped quote
> matthew
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terence Parr" <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
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> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] How to have strings enclosed in " and/or
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>> On Dec 9, 2004, at 11:36 AM, matthew ford wrote:
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>>> Hi Ter,
>>> What ambiguity do you see that I don't? Both  tokens mean the same  "
>>> = =
>>> &quot;
>>> Perhaps I am too close the problem
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>> I just meant that you really don't know when to stop a string, do you?
>>
>> Ter
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