[antlr-interest] Quoted String Literal - confused by greed=false behavior.

[Bart Kiers]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:06 PM, G. Richard Bellamy <rbellamy at pteradigm.com
> wrote:

> Thanks to both of you for your help.
>
> Clearly I understated things when I said I was confused.
>
> 1. I was under the impression that greedy=true was the default, in every
> case. For instance, in "The Definitive ANTLR Reference"...


By default, * and + are greedy, _except_ when preceded by the . (DOT).
See: The Definitive ANTLR reference, Ch 4, Extended BNF Subrules, page 86.

But as Jim mentioned, this is not the issue here. The rule:

STRING : '"' ('""' | ~'"')* '"';


matches input like:

"a b "" c"


just fine (as a single STRING).

Regards,

Bart.