[antlr-interest] Dealing with issues in non-greedy (.)* rules

[Gavin Lambert]

At 04:31 13/06/2007, Terence Parr wrote:
 >.+ works fine in the lexer and probably parser.  Consumes
 >until it sees what follows.

Yeah, but there is a difference.  In the lexer it consumes 
characters, whereas in the parser it consumes tokens.  So when 
trying to match characters that aren't otherwise assigned a token 
you need to use it in the final lexer rule.