[antlr-interest] Unterminated html comments

[Steve Bennett]

On 2/19/08, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> (manually specifying the option didn't change the behaviour of the
> rule, that I can tell).
>
> Any other ideas?

Hey, just tried forcing greedy=true with a slight tweak and it works as desired:

HTML_COMMENT:
    (('<!--' .* '-->') => '<!--' .* '-->' { $channel=HIDDEN; })
    |(('<!--') => '<!--' (options {greedy=true;}: .)*  { $channel=HIDDEN; })
    | '<' { $type=LT; };

Seems to pass all the test cases I can think of. (Well, except it's
losing the first character on malformed comments but anyway...)

Steve