[antlr-interest] When a comment not a comment
Peterson, Joe
joe.peterson at intel.com
Wed Feb 18 10:51:56 PST 2009
Hello all,
I have a need to have an exception to my comment rule that I want to know the best way to handle. Basically, I need to not treat something that starts with, say, #ABCD as not a comment. (This is for backward compatibility.)
For example:
# This is a comment
Something = value;
#ABCD This = that
This needs to treat the third line as if the #ABCD didn't exist. So I'm trying something like this:
fragment NONCOMMENT : '#ABCD' ;
COMMENT
: NONCOMMENT { $channel=HIDDEN; }
| '#' ~('\r' | '\n')* { $channel=HIDDEN; };
This seems to work fine, but when I check the grammar, I get a warning that #ABCD can match multiple alternatives and so the second alternative is disabled. This is the desired behavior, of course, but since it gives me a warning, I wonder if there a better way to switch off treating this thing that looks like a comment as a comment.
Thanks,
-JEEP
Joe Peterson
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