[antlr-interest] Meaning of error message: expecting EOA, found 'Q'

[Don Maier]

Hi Kay,

The rule in question is:

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/* A quote-bracketed sequence of non-quote characters, though  
permitting embedded
* escaped quotes in the forma of '\"'.  The content is the character  
string
* between the quotes, which may contain leading and trailing spaces,  
tabs,
* carriage returns, or newlines.
*/
/*
QUOTED_CONTENT
	: Q (options {greedy=false;} : (~(Q|'\\'Q)))* Q
	;

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Is it possible that this somehow affects the tree parser, but not the  
basic parser?

In any event, thanks for your interest in this problem!

Regards,
Don M.

On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Kay Roepke wrote:

>
> On Jul 11, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Don Maier wrote:
>
>> Can anyone give me a hint about what this error message means:
>>
>> 	IDF.g:0:0: syntax error: buildnfa: <AST>:483:42: expecting EOA,  
>> found 'Q'
>>
>> (in this case, 'Q' is a lexical element standing for a single  
>> quote mark.)
>
> hard to say without looking at the grammar. it basically is a  
> syntax error in the grammar somehow.
> because the antlr grammar parser is not yet written in ANTLR v3  
> (but in v2) the error messages emitted
> are not yet ideal (this is simply an internal code issue)
>
> could you post at least the rule (should be in line 483 of your  
> grammar)?
>
> cheers,
> -k
> -- 
> Kay Röpke
> http://classdump.org/
>
>
>




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