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Ryan O.
Ryan O.

Reputation: 322

ANTLR4 - How do I get the token TYPE as the token text in ANTLR?

Say I have a grammar that has tokens like this:

AND        : 'AND' | 'and' | '&&' | '&';
OR         : 'OR' | 'or' | '||' | '|' ;
NOT        : 'NOT' | 'not' | '~' | '!';

When I visualize the ParseTree using TreeViewer or print the tree using tree.toStringTree(), each node's text is the same as what was matched.

So if I parse "A and B or C", the two binary operators will be "and" / "or". If I parse "A && B || C", they'll be "&&" / "||".

What I would LIKE is for them to always be "AND" / "OR / "NOT", regardless of what literal symbol was matched. Is this possible?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6517

Answers (1)

Mike Lischke
Mike Lischke

Reputation: 53532

This is what the vocabulary is for. Use yourLexer.getVocabulary() or yourParser.getVocabulary() and then vocabulary.getSymbolicName(tokenType) for the text representation of the token type. If that returns an empty string try as second step vocabulary.getLiteralName(tokenType), which returns the text used to define the token.

Upvotes: 11

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