[antlr-interest] How to set imaginary token text?

[Vaclav Barta]

On Monday 16 July 2007 21:20, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 12:04, Vaclav Barta wrote:
> > Experimenting some more, maybe I'd like to parse (some of) these
> > characters individually but consolidate them into one AST node -
> > something like
> Let me clarify that it is at the lexical level that a
> token-per-character approach incurs potentially excessive overhead. For
> example, a whitespace rule that matched single white-space characters
> vs. one that collected them together could make a large difference in
Well, I'm not tokenizing whitespace characters individually. String characters 
may well run into thousands, but what's a few thousand objects between 
friends?

> > string
> >
> > 	: s = quotedString -> LITERAL
> > 	| BareString -> LITERAL
> > 	;
> >
> > where LITERAL is an imaginary token - but as written, it obviously
> > loses the string value. How can I set LITERAL token text to the value
> > returned from quotedString, or $BareString.getText() ?
> Do you have TDAR (The Definitive ANTLR Refernce)? If so, on page 176
No.

  	Bye
  		Vasek