[antlr-interest] Interactive processing of input

Bart Kiers bkiers at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 00:24:02 PDT 2011


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:49 AM, NeoPhyte <20neophyte08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does ANTLR give me an option for interactive processing of input.  ie
> Processing every line of input one by one
> >From whatever I know till now, it starts processing after it encounters an
> EOF.
> Is there some way I can make it process my input by some other means, say
> when it reads a "enter" etc.


The parser can only get started after it receives the input, so the answer
is no: you can't let the parser "do things" if only part of the tokens are
known.

Why not line simply create a new lexer/parser for each line and process the
input (and evaluate it).

Regards,

Bart.


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