[antlr-interest] Novice Question - Token for all characters from a given point to End of Line
Matt Palmer
mattpalms at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 11:22:07 PDT 2008
Hi Fred,
You should be able to use predicates, something like this:
COMMAND
: 'create' | 'delete' { inCommand = true; }
;
COMMAND_TOKEN
: {inCommand}?=>
(options{greedy=false;} : . ) NEW_LINE { inCommand = false; }
;
Matt.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Brisard, Fred D <Fred.Brisard at ca.com> wrote:
> I have a keyword style grammar and have the need to accept all the
> characters until the end of line to be accepted as a single token.
>
> For example, I have a statement that is of the following type
>
> Command multiple arguments (EOL)
>
> Where Command can be a command name and the multiple arguments are one or
> more arguments. There can be from 1 to many arguments – each argument
> does not have a fixed content – it may be an integer, a string, a quoted
> string. The characters in the string can be most anything.
>
> I was looking for something similar to the multiple line comment technique
> using the greedy=false option. Collect all the characters following the
> Command into a single token.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Regards, Fred
>
>
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