[antlr-interest] Catch all characters token

[Steve Jones]

Hi,

The problem is complicated by the fact I need to return three tokens, eg:

BEGIN 
SOME_TEXT
END

If I use greedy then then I will only produce one token that contains the 
terminals BEGIN and END as well as the interposing text.


On Wednesday 07 Jul 2004 17:27, Monty Zukowski wrote:
> Look at the docs for the greedy option for lexer rules.
>
> On Jul 7, 2004, at 4:06 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble writting a lexer rule that will match all input
> > between two
> > keywords, eg:
> >
> > BEGIN  any character sequence END
> >
> >> From this I'd like to generate and pass the tokens:
> >
> > BEGIN
> > SOME_TEXT
> > END
> >
> > to the parser.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>

-- 
Cheers Steve


 
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