My grammar (as follows (trimmed down from the original)) requires somewhat overlapping rules
grammar NOVIANum;
statement : (priorityStatement | integerStatement)* ;
priorityStatement : T_PRIO TwoDigits ;
integerStatement : T_INTEGER Integer ;
WS : [ \t\r\n]+ -> skip ;
T_PRIO : 'PRIO' ;
T_INTEGER : 'INTEGER' ;
Integer: OneToNine Digit* | ZERO ;
TwoDigits : Digit Digit ;
fragment OneToNine : ('1'..'9') ;
fragment Digit: ('0'..'9');
ZERO : [0] ;
so "Integer" and "TwoDigits" overlap to a certain extent.
The following input
INTEGER 10
PRIO 10
results in
line 2:5 mismatched input '10' expecting TwoDigits
when Integer precedes TwoDigits and in
line 1:8 mismatched input '10' expecting Integer
when TwoDigits precedes Integer in the grammar.
Is there a way around this ?
Thanks - Alex
Edit:
Thanks @GRosenberg, your suggestion, of course, worked for this small example, but when I integrated this into my full grammar it led to different mismatched input errors sure enough.
The reason being another lexer rule which requires a range of '[1-4]', so I thought I'll be clever and turn it into
grammar NOVIANum;
statement : (priorityT | integerT | levelT )* ;
priorityT : T_PRIO twoDigits ;
integerT : T_INTEGER integer ;
levelT : T_LEVEL levelNumber ;
levelNumber : ( ZERO DIGIT ) | ( OneToFour (ZERO | DIGIT) ) ;
integer: ZERO* ( DIGIT ( DIGIT | ZERO )* ) ;
twoDigits : (ZERO | DIGIT) ( ZERO | DIGIT ) ;
oneToFour : OneToFour (DIGIT | ZERO) ;
WS : [ \t\r\n]+ -> skip ;
T_INTEGER : 'INTEGER' ;
T_LEVEL : 'LEVEL' ;
T_PRIO : 'PRIO' ;
DIGIT: OneToFour | FiveToNine ;
ZERO : '0' ;
OneToFour : [1-4] ;
FiveToNine : [5-9] ;
This still works for the previous inputs but ...
INTEGER 350
PRIO 10
LEVEL 01
LEVEL 05
LEVEL 10
LEVEL 49
results in
[@0,0:6='INTEGER',<2>,1:0]
[@1,8:8='3',<5>,1:8]
[@2,9:9='5',<5>,1:9]
[@3,10:10='0',<6>,1:10]
[@4,12:15='PRIO',<4>,2:0]
[@5,17:17='1',<5>,2:5]
[@6,18:18='0',<6>,2:6]
[@7,20:24='LEVEL',<3>,3:0]
[@8,26:26='0',<6>,3:6]
[@9,27:27='1',<5>,3:7]
[@10,29:33='LEVEL',<3>,4:0]
[@11,35:35='0',<6>,4:6]
[@12,36:36='5',<5>,4:7]
[@13,38:42='LEVEL',<3>,5:0]
[@14,44:44='1',<5>,5:6]
[@15,45:45='0',<6>,5:7]
[@16,47:51='LEVEL',<3>,6:0]
[@17,53:53='4',<5>,6:6]
[@18,54:54='9',<5>,6:7]
[@19,55:54='<EOF>',<-1>,6:8]
line 5:6 no viable alternative at input '1'
line 6:6 no viable alternative at input '4'
(statement (integerT INTEGER (integer 3 5 0)) (priorityT PRIO (twoDigits 1 0)) (levelT LEVEL (levelNumber 0 1)) (levelT LEVEL (levelNumber 0 5)) (levelT LEVEL (levelNumber 1 0)) (levelT LEVEL (levelNumber 4 9)))
What am I missing here ?
Edit 2:
Ok, answering my own question here, of course
DIGIT: OneToFour | FiveToNine ;
kicks in where it shouldn't, even in this combined form, so about the only way to get around this - I can think of - would be
grammar NOVIANum;
statement : (priorityT | integerT | levelT )* ;
priorityT : T_PRIO twoDigits ;
integerT : T_INTEGER integer ;
levelT : T_LEVEL levelNumber ;
levelNumber : ( ZERO (OneToFour | FiveToNine) | ( OneToFour (ZERO | (OneToFour | FiveToNine)) ) ) ;
integer: ZERO* ( (OneToFour | FiveToNine) ( (OneToFour | FiveToNine) | ZERO )* ) ;
twoDigits : (ZERO | (OneToFour | FiveToNine)) ( ZERO | (OneToFour | FiveToNine) ) ;
WS : [ \t\r\n]+ -> skip ;
T_INTEGER : 'INTEGER' ;
T_LEVEL : 'LEVEL' ;
T_PRIO : 'PRIO' ;
// DIGIT: OneToFour | FiveToNine;
ZERO : '0' ;
OneToFour : [1-4] ;
FiveToNine : [5-9] ;
because when I create a parser rule for it like
oneToNine : OneToFour | FiveToNine ;
it'll give me this
integerT INTEGER (integer (oneToNine 3) (oneToNine 5) 0))
which is ugly and harder to handle than just
(integerT INTEGER (integer 3 5 0))