[antlr-interest] Grammar not detecting stray syntax after certain valid blocks

David Daeschler david.daeschler at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 11:44:45 PDT 2011


Thank you Bart!

That of course did the trick. I dont know why I didnt think of that.

I appreciate the quick response, have a nice week!
-- 
David Daeschler



On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Bart Kiers <bkiers at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is enough to demonstrate the problem. When I create a program such as:
>>
>> state hello
>> {
>>
>> }
>> }
>>
>> The trailing close bracket is not detected as an error.
>> <http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address>
>
>
> Try to "anchor" it by adding an EOF at the end of your entry-rule:
>
> public prog
>   :  globalStmt+ EOF
>   ;
>
>
> That way, you force the parser to go through the entire token stream, and
> not stop prematurely.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bart.
>
>


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