[antlr-interest] Does ANTLR read the entire file before parsing?

[siva.kumar at loglogic.com]

Thanks for your reply, Gavin.

-Siva

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Lambert [mailto:antlr at mirality.co.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:13 PM
To: Siva Kumar (siva.kumar at loglogic.com); antlr-interest at antlr.org
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Does ANTLR read the entire file before
parsing?

At 08:48 2/07/2008, siva.kumar at loglogic.com wrote:
 >   Just wanted confirmation that ANTLR will generate code that 
will
 >read the entire file before it's passed to the lexer.

The timing is a little different (I think it actually slurps the 
file when the lexer is asked to produce the first token, which is 
when the token stream is created), but essentially yes.