[antlr-interest] #include handling - newbie question

[Terence Parr]

On Jul 14, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Bill Clark wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for tips on the simplest way to handle #include
> directives in a file to be parsed by ANTLR. I've seen the advice
> that it's not a problem that ANTLR is well-suited to solve, but I'm
> not sure what's the best way to go about this. I can easily write a
> preprocessor that just inserts the contents of the included file in
> the stream that's handed to the lexer, but then I don't see a good
> way to provide line numbers/filenames in error messages.
>
> It seems like there ought to be a simple way to deal with this
> general problem; am I missing it?

ANTLR can do nested lexers no sweat.  I launch a new lexer to handle 
each include file.  I believe at my CS652 site (see the link in 
documentation on antlr.org) I have a lecture (including audio) on 
include files.
Ter

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