[antlr-interest] How can I get the string contents of a Kleene Closure?

[Dejas Ninethousand]

I see.  Thanks.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Jim Idle <jimi at temporal-wave.com> wrote:

> Well, you are asking for the contents of a parse construct, not a lexer
> rule you understand? This says ANY token 0 or more times, then a ';'. For
> a start, that is about as ambiguous as you can get of course. IF you are
> looking for any token (not character) sequence followed by ';' then you
> likely want:
>
> s_t_s : ~';'* ';' ;
>
>
> Then to get the text of the tokens:
>
> s_t_s : (a=~';' {System.out.println($a.text); } )* ';' ;
>
> But instead of println, accumulate in a StringBuilder or similar.
>
> Jim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> > bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Godfrey
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:24 PM
> > To: Dejas Ninethousand; Antlr-Interest Antlr.Org
> > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] How can I get the string contents of a
> > Kleene Closure?
> >
> > rich_newick_string : semicolon_terminated_string {
> > stack.pushRichNewickString($semicolon_terminated_string.text); };
> >
> > semicolon_terminated_string
> >
> > : (.*';') ;
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/6/11 5:44 PM, "Dejas Ninethousand" <dejas9000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I have the following production in my ANTLR grammar:
> > >
> > >rich_newick_string
> > >: str=(.*';') { stack.pushRichNewickString($str.text); };
> > >
> > >I expected some string match to be passed to my pushRichNewickString
> > >method, but instead I'm getting null. What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > >Thanks.
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