The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference (For Richard Allen) by Parr, Terence -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference Table of Contents Early Praise for The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference Acknowledgments Welcome Aboard!

Who Is This Book For? What’s So Cool About ANTLR V4? What’s in This Book? Learning More About ANTLR Online

Part 1: Introducing ANTLR and Computer Languages Chapter 1: Meet ANTLR

1.1 Installing ANTLR 1.2 Executing ANTLR and Testing Recognizers

Chapter 2: The Big Picture

2.1 Let’s Get Meta! 2.2 Implementing Parsers 2.3 You Can’t Put Too Much Water into a Nuclear Reactor 2.4 Building Language Applications Using Parse Trees 2.5 Parse-Tree Listeners and Visitors

Chapter 3: A Starter ANTLR Project

3.1 The ANTLR Tool, Runtime, and Generated Code 3.2 Testing the Generated Parser 3.3 Integrating a Generated Parser into a Java Program 3.4 Building a Language Application

Chapter 4: A Quick Tour

4.1 Matching an Arithmetic Expression Language 4.2 Building a Calculator Using a Visitor 4.3 Building a Translator with a Listener 4.4 Making Things Happen During the Parse 4.5 Cool Lexical Features

Part 2: Developing Language Applications with ANTLR Grammars Chapter 5: Designing Grammars

Chapter 6: Exploring Some Real Grammars

6.1 Parsing Comma-Separated Values 6.2 Parsing JSON 6.3 Parsing DOT 6.4 Parsing Cymbol 6.5 Parsing R

Chapter 7: Decoupling Grammars from Application-Specific Code

Chapter 8: Building Some Real Language Applications

8.1 Loading CSV Data 8.2 Translating JSON to XML 8.3 Generating a Call Graph 8.4 Validating Program Symbol Usage

Part 3: Advanced Topics Chapter 9: Error Reporting and Recovery

9.1 A Parade of Errors 9.2 Altering and Redirecting ANTLR Error Messages 9.3 Automatic Error Recovery Strategy 9.4 Error Alternatives 9.5 Altering ANTLR’s Error Handling Strategy

Chapter 10: Attributes and Actions

Chapter 11: Altering the Parse with Semantic Predicates

11.1 Recognizing Multiple Language Dialects 11.2 Deactivating Tokens 11.3 Recognizing Ambiguous Phrases

Chapter 12: Wielding Lexical Black Magic

12.1 Broadcasting Tokens on Different Channels 12.2 Context-Sensitive Lexical Problems 12.3 Islands in the Stream 12.4 Parsing and Lexing XML

Part 4: ANTLR Reference Chapter 13: Exploring the Runtime API

13.1 Library Package Overview 13.2 Recognizers 13.3 Input Streams of Characters and Tokens 13.4 Tokens and Token Factories 13.5 Parse Trees 13.6 Error Listeners and Strategies 13.7 Maximizing Parser Speed 13.8 Unbuffered Character and Token Streams 13.9 Altering ANTLR’s Code Generation

Chapter 14: Removing Direct Left Recursion

14.1 Direct Left-Recursive Alternative Patterns 14.2 Left-Recursive Rule Transformations

Chapter 15: Grammar Reference

15.1 Grammar Lexicon 15.2 Grammar Structure 15.3 Parser Rules 15.4 Actions and Attributes 15.5 Lexer Rules 15.6 Wildcard Operator and Nongreedy Subrules 15.7 Semantic Predicates 15.8 Options 15.9 ANTLR Tool Command-Line Options

Appendix 1: Bibliography