thanks for taking a look at my question.
So I have the grammar and lexer rules that I use to parse user input on a grocery list. The grammar matches sentences such as '10 Pound beef' which has the tokens 'amount unit ware'. The ware token matches any valid unicode string but I cannot enter strings matched by the unit token as they are caught by the unit rule. So my question is, can i instruct my lexer to ignore the unit rule after the first match such that I can input '10 Pound Pound' with the tokens 'amount unit ware' without errors?
Grammar:
grammar Shopping;
import lexerrules;
parse : item EOF ;
item : (amount (SPACE* unit)? SPACE+)? ware | (unit (SPACE* amount)? SPACE+)? ware ;
ware : STRING (SPACE+ STRING)* ;
amount : NUM ;
unit : UNIT ;
Lexer rules:
lexer grammar lexerrules;
NUM : [0-9]+(('.'|',')[0-9]+)? ;
UNIT : WEIGHT | LENGTH | VOLUME | MISC ;
STRING : CHAR+
SPACE : ' ' ;
WS : [\u000C\f\t\r\n]+ -> skip ;
CHAR : '\u0041' .. '\uFFFF' ;
WEIGHT : [Kk]'g' | [Kk]'ilo' | [Kk]'ilogram' | [Gg] | [Gg]'ram' |
[Dd]'ecigram' | [Oo]'unce' | [Oo]'z' | [Pp]'ound' | [Ll]'b' ;
LENGTH : [Mm] | [Mm]'eter' | [Cc]'m' | [Cc]'entimeter' |
[Ii]'nch' | [Ii][Nn] ;
VOLUME : [Ll] | [Ll]'iter' | [Dd]'l' | [Dd]'eciliter' | [Cc][Ll] |
[Cc]'entiliter' ;