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Recognize trailing text as a comment [message #1773947]

Sat, 07 October 2017 04:25

Joseph Reynolds

Messages: 2
Registered: October 2017

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I have a DSL that treats anything that follows the last recognized keyword token as a comment. I am having trouble creating a grammar for this.

Simplified example file:

A KEYWORD
B KEYWORD this
C KEYWORD this is an error

Grammar thus far:

grammar org.xtext.example.mydsl.MyDsl with org.eclipse.xtext.common.Terminals

generate myDsl ... (cannot post the real link since I'm such a newbie)

Model:
greetings+=Greeting*;

Greeting:
(name=ID) 'KEYWORD' ANY_OTHER*;

The first two lines are error free - no comment and a single word comment.
For the third line, these errors are given:

Multiple markers at this line
- mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting 'KEYWORD'
- missing 'KEYWORD' at 'is'
- extraneous input 'C' expecting 'KEYWORD'
- missing 'KEYWORD' at 'error'
- missing 'KEYWORD' at 'an'

I am new to Xtext so hope that I have overlooked a simple solution.

The <EOF> message appears if I have pressed newline after the last line, but there is no <EOF> message if I do not press newline. I assume that when the file is ultimately parsed there will be an <EOF> so have to solve that issue too.

Thanks for your help.

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Re: Recognize trailing text as a comment [message #1774113 is a reply to message #1773947]

Tue, 10 October 2017 16:41

Christian Dietrich

Messages: 14665
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

ANY_OTHER actually means: NOT (ID | STRING | KEYWORD | WS | .......)

you could try

Greeting:
	name=ID 'KEYWORD' (ID | ANY_OTHER)*;

but depending on the complexity of the grammar that might not work

Xtext is not linebased.

you could try to introduce a terminal that eats up everything from the keyword till the end of the like e.g.

	
Greeting:
	name=ID KEYWORD_AND_REST
;

terminal KEYWORD_AND_REST:
	'KEYWORD' !('\n'|'\r')* ('\r'? '\n')?
;

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