[antlr-interest] How to get position in bytes in the stream or string that is parsed?

[Jim Idle]

Java? C#? C?

You mean the position of a particular token? Look at the API for CommonToken. You will see methods such as getStartIndex. You can also use $tok.start and things like that in a grammar.


http://www.antlr.org/api/Java/classorg_1_1antlr_1_1runtime_1_1_common_token.html


Jim 

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> Subject: [antlr-interest] How to get position in bytes in the stream or
> string that is parsed?
> 
> Hi,
> How to get position in bytes in the stream or string that is parsed?
> Could someone tell me how to get that?
> 
> I read the faq where it was witten what had to be overridden.
> Is there a clear example somewhere?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marton Papp
> 
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