[antlr-interest] Support for non-java special characters (\a)
Doug Holton
doug.holton at comcast.net
Sun Apr 17 00:59:14 PDT 2005
I get an error trying to $setText("\a") using the C# antlr runtime.
"\a" is a special character for a console beep.
The error is "unexpected character: a".
Is there any way I can work around this in my grammar, or is this
something that could be added to the C# antlr version, so that
perhaps it could allow: $setText("\\a") and convert it to "\a".
I can manually change \\a to \a in the generated lexer source and the
beep works.
Here's a list of all the special characters possible in C#, some of
which are not supported in java:
\' \" \\ \0 \a \b \f \n \r \t \v
I imagine this would be an issue for the python antlr runtime, too. You
can print "\a" in python as well.
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