Remember antlr.markmail.org. The simplest way to deal with this is to  
add a newline to your input before parsimg it.

Jim

On Jun 1, 2010, at 6:33, Nathan Eloe <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hello all,
> I'm working on an AST parser for the Bash language and I've come  
> across the following strange behavior:
> I'm trying to handle comments, so I used the comments token you can  
> get when you start a new grammar in ANTLRworks.  It works.
>
> COMMENT
>    :   '#' ~('\n'|'\r')* '\r'? '\n' {$channel=HIDDEN;}
>    ;
>
> The problem arises when the comment is the last thing from the input  
> (i.e, no new line before EOF).  Removing the '\n' from the token  
> causes it to freak out when I run the tests, but I can't get it to  
> match comments at the end of file.  Leaving that '\n' in lets the  
> code compile, but I still can't match that last case.
>
> Here's where the interesting part happens.  When I run it through  
> the debugger with the same test case that I use in gunit, the  
> debugger allows the input and parses it correctly (meaning, it  
> ignores it as it should) and correctly generates the expected AST.
>
> Does the debugger allow the code to be more robust in its decision  
> making abilities?  Or does it do something to the input to allow it  
> to be matched to a token.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Nathan
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