A question to lexer rules and its priorities. Is there any dependency between order of lexer rule definitions?
Some time ago I had some trouble: TIME : (DIGIT+'h' |DIGIT+'m' |DIGIT+'s' |DIGIT+'h'+DIGIT+'m' |DIGIT+'h'+DIGIT+'m'+DIGIT+'s' |DIGIT+'m'+DIGIT+'s'); DIGIT : ('0'..'9'); NUMBER : DIGIT+; LOWERCASE : 'a'..'z'; UPPERCASE : 'A'..'Z'; IDENTIFIER_LOWER : (LOWERCASE|DIGIT|'_')+; IDENTIFIER_UPPER : (UPPERCASE|DIGIT|'_')*; NEWLINE : ('\r'|'\n'|'\r\n'); WS : (' ' |'\t' |'\r''\n' |'\n' ) { skip(); }; COMMENT : ('//' (~('\n'|'\r'))* NEWLINE+) {skip();}; QUOTE : '"'; STRING_LITERAL : '"' ('\u0020'|'\u0021'|'\u0023'..'\u007f')* '"'; This worked for me. But when moving TIME to end of defintions, antlrworks wasn't able to parse my examples. My understanding of lexer rules is, the best rule will match. The best rule is the rule matching the most characters. But what about TIME and IDENTIFIER_LOWER? Both may match the same input sequence. regards, markus List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to il-antlr-inter...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to il-antlr-interest+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.