[antlr-interest] Strategy for generating text pattern for a decrementing value

[John Ridgway]

I think you'll find that StringTemplate has everything you need to do  
this.  Check the documentation pages at stringtemplate.org.

Peace
- John


On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Simon Woods wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am translating a language into a new form, so I have a grammar,  
> tree walker and several templates.
>
> In the original language, there may be an occurance of a particular  
> expression which contains a number, N. If this expression occurs,  
> based on the value this number, I want to generate a text pattern  
> something like
>
> "mytextpattern-(N) OR mytextpattern-(N-1) OR mytextpattern-(N-2) OR  
> mytextpattern-(N-3) ..." until N = 0
>
> I am unsure of the way to approach this and am wondering if someone  
> could give me some pointers. e.g. Should I be passing that number  
> into a rule and then decrementing the value by passing it somehow  
> into a method in the native language (C#) and then using that  
> returned value.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Simon
>