[antlr-interest] Antlr 3 Lexer problem

[Geoffrey Zhu]

Hi,

I have a simple lexer problem. The below grammar will fail on "(
security" in the lexer, because when the lexer sees '(' and then sees
's' , it will try to match the LP_SELECT rule, which cannot be matched.
In this case, I want the lexer to return LPAREN and then ID. How can I
do that?

Thanks a lot,
Geoffrey


grammar T;

options {
	language=3DCSharp;
	backtracking=3Dtrue;
}

ID : ('a'..'z')+;

LPAREN : '(';

LP_SELECT : LPAREN 'select';

prog: (ID | LPAREN | LP_SELECT)+ ;

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