[antlr-interest] match any token in line

[Nukiti Romanova]

maybe is this what you want?

in      :   cname*;
cname   :   '@' CHAR* ':' NL param*;
param   :   (CHAR|':')+ NL+;
CHAR    :   ~(NewLineChars|'@'|':')+ ;
NL      :   NewLineChars+;

fragment NewLineChars
    : '\n' 
    | '\r' 
    ;

Nukiti

>> Hello,
>> 
>> new to ANTLR I wondered if it is possible to match ".*" expressions.  
>> So I do not have to explicitly define the tokens to be matched and  
>> capture all kinds of tokens including UTF-8 characters. My input  
>> format I would like to process looks like:
>> 
>> @<CLASS-IDENTIFIER1>:
>> record1
>> record2
>> ...
>> recordn
>> @<CLASS-IDENTIFIER2>
>> ...
>> 
>> as for instance
>> 
>> @class1:
>> .*cat
>> @class3:
>> bob
>> jack
>> @class6:
>> df2
>> dfe4
>> 
>> Now wrote the following grammar
>> 
>> in        :    cname*;
>> cname    :    '@' CHAR* '\n' (param '\n')*;
>> param    :    CHAR*;
>> CHAR    :    'a'..'z';
>> 
>> The problem her is that I could only detect records with 'a'..'b'.  
>> Could I replace this with ".*" to match any token?
>> 
>> Another idea was to match any token but '@' with [^'@']* as known from  
>> regular expressions - somehow I did not get this work with ANTLR?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Toby