ANother Tool for Language Recognition (ANTLR)
Explore ANTLR v4's capabilities for language recognition, including grammar design, parsing, and parse tree creation. Understand how to compile grammars and test inputs using ANTLR's tools to effectively build and manipulate domain-specific language components.
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In this chapter, we will explore the language architecture and get familiar with the capabilities of ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition).
ANTLR
ANTLR is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files. It is widely used to build languages, tools, and frameworks. ANTLR builds and walks parse trees based on grammar.
Setup
ANTLR is written in Java. In this course, we are using ANTLR v4. To make things as simple as possible, we have installed ANTLR on our platform, which we can easily use through the ...