[antlr-interest] antlr-interest Digest, Vol 27, Issue 49
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Mon Feb 26 17:58:54 PST 2007
On Feb 26, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Martin d'Anjou wrote:
>> Why do you wish to have filter lexer though? Why not just have a
>> catch
>> all rule at the end that matches anything and just assigns the
>> channel
>> to hidden? It seems you might be using filters for something that
>> doesn't want to be done with a filter ;-)
>
> I don't understand why the lexer does not try the longest match
> before declaring the token type when filter=true.
Hi, [I'm back from my trip but still behind]
filter mode by definition does things in order specified. The order
is the precedence. It uses backtracking when needed.
Ter
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