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ANTLR - Grammar language

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ANTLR is an open source grammar language created in 1992.

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In computer-based language recognition, ANTLR (pronounced Antler), or Another Tool For Language Recognition, is a parser generator that uses LL(*) for parsing. ANTLR is the successor to the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS), first developed in 1989, and is under active development. Its maintainer is Professor Terence Parr of the University of San Francisco.. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from the web:
/** Taken from "The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference" by Terence Parr */ // Derived from http://json.org grammar JSON; json : value ; obj : '{' pair (',' pair)* '}' | '{' '}' ; pair : STRING ':' value ; arr : '[' value (',' value)* ']' | '[' ']' ; value : STRING | NUMBER | obj | arr | 'true' | 'false' | 'null' ; STRING : '"' (ESC | SAFECODEPOINT)* '"' ; fragment ESC : '\\' (["\\/bfnrt] | UNICODE) ; fragment UNICODE : 'u' HEX HEX HEX HEX ; fragment HEX : [0-9a-fA-F] ; fragment SAFECODEPOINT : ~ ["\\\u0000-\u001F] ; NUMBER : '-'? INT ('.' [0-9] +)? EXP? ; fragment INT : '0' | [1-9] [0-9]* ; // no leading zeros fragment EXP : [Ee] [+\-]? INT ; // \- since - means "range" inside [...] WS : [ \t\n\r] + -> skip ;
Example from Wikipedia:
TextReader reader; // (...) Fill TextReader with character SumLexer lexer = new SumLexer(reader); SumParser parser = new SumParser(lexer); parser.expression();

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