[antlr-interest] Creating tokens on error
Randall R Schulz
rschulz at sonic.net
Sun Apr 6 11:20:23 PDT 2008
On Sunday 06 April 2008 10:41, Marko Simovic wrote:
> If I have a parser rule for addition that looks like this:
>
> sum : something (Plus^ something)*;
>
> it works fine for input like:
>
> a+b
>
> however, if I have input such as:
>
> a+
>
> which is invalid syntax (and causes a NoViableAltException), I would
> like the parser to generate a "placeholder" token for the missing
> operand. Is this possible?
I don't know if ANTLR has built-in support for this sort of thing, but
what I do is write productions for common error cases and in their
actions issue a diagnostic and then supply distinctive placeholders for
the missing elements (or simply drop superfluous ones, as the case may
be).
> Thanks,
> Marko
Randall Schulz
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