[antlr-interest] Re: Allowing Space characters in string literals under certain circumstances

[Lubos Vnuk]

...or maybe: 

STRING_LITERAL : (STRCHAR)+ ( ((' ')+ STRCHAR)=> (' ')+ (STRCHAR)+ )*
;

could do the trick.

HTH,
Lubos.


--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "Lubos Vnuk" <lubos.vnuk at r...> 
wrote:
> Hi Ron,
> 
> How about:
> 
> STRING_LITERAL : (STRCHAR)+ ( (' ')+ (STRCHAR)+ )*
> ;
> 
> HTH,
> Lubos.
> 
> --- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "Ron Denis" <rdenisus at y...> 
> wrote:
> > I need the ability to allow space characters inside a string 
> literal (not at
> > the beginning or end of the literal, only internally).  But I 
need 
> to ignore
> > the space as simply whitespace otherwise.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > So, I need to be able to parse:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > = Ron Denis
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > But the space before Ron and any spaces after Denis are ignored 
but 
> the
> > space between Ron and Denis is part of the string literal.  So 
the 
> token
> > will be "Ron Denis".
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Ron Denis
> > 
> > Systems Architect
> > 
> > FEI.Com


 

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