[antlr-interest] lexer: embedded quotes assistance

[Edwards, Waverly]

Thank you very much Gavin.  This was the key to success!
I would also like to thank Matthew and fyaoxy and there
replies also proved valuable in my education.

Gavin, your solution kept me from pulling out my hair out.
I researched the greedy=false option and how to obtain a string
using it but was far from successful.

I haven't figured out how to get ANTLR to tell me the string is
unterminated but I will.

Based on your rule DBLQUOTE I was able to retrieve the whole
of the quoted material and parse it.  I also didn't need a
NEWLINE or ¬NEWLINE rule as a part of DBLQUOTE.  I made my
adjustments after I received all of the quoted text.

OUTSTANDING!!! 

( You can tell I'm a newbie can't you? )

Attached for anyone's benefit is the final solution with testing
text file.


Thanks again



W.


-----Original Message-----
Gavin Lambert wrote:

[snip]

Not tested, but this ought to do what you want:

DBLQUOTE
   :  '"'
      (~'"' | '""')*
      '"'
   ;

[snip]

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