[antlr-interest] case-insensitive parsing

Jim Idle jimi at temporal-wave.com
Thu Apr 23 08:15:59 PDT 2009


Bob Sole wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Unfortunately that won't help me in this case, because I still need to 
> be able to parse the contents of the comments. The overall aim is to 
> extract Javadoc-style tags such as "@param" from the comment section 
> and match them to procedure parameters, e.g.
>
> /** this procedure does nothing much
>   @param aString this is a string
>   @param anInt this is a number
> */
You need to do this with a separate island grammar called from your 
lexer, it will be too difficult to do this in the one gramamr as they 
are essentially two different languages.

Jim


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