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Single quote ambiguity [message #756450] Sun, 13 November 2011 13:22 Go to next message
Mahmoud Moneeb is currently offline Mahmoud MoneebFriend
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Registered: October 2011
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Hi,

I want to declare a grammar rule:

Test_rule: ID '\'' ID ';'

But it's not working because of the terminal STRING.

I want to ask how can get the two rules working properly !

Best regards,
Mahmoud
Re: Single quote ambiguity [message #756461 is a reply to message #756450] Sun, 13 November 2011 16:42 Go to previous message
Alexander Nittka is currently offline Alexander NittkaFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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Hi,

do you need single quotes anywhere else in the grammar? If you do not use them as String delimiters, simply copy the STRING rule from the default terminal grammar and eliminate the single quote alternative.

If you need single quotes for the string terminal, you will have a harder time. As terminal rules are considered during lexing (chopping the documents into tokens without any context information) and data type rules (like your Test_rule) are considered during parsing. Usually it is not a good idea to introduce too many terminal rules as that increases the risk of overlapping terminals with all its consequences. If white spaces are not allowed in Test_rule (i.e. ab ' cd is invalid; currently white spaces would be allowed) it might work simply to turn Testrule into a terminal.

Alex
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