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How to match any symbol in ANTLR parser (not lexer)? Where is the complete language description for ANTLR4 parsers?

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Is the answer is "impossible"?

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You first need to understand the roles of each part in parsing:

The lexer: this is the object that tokenizes your input string. Tokenizing means to convert a stream of input characters to an abstract token symbol (usually just a number).

The parser: this is the object that only works with tokens to determine the structure of a language. A language (written as one or more grammar files) defines the token combinations that are valid.

As you can see, the parser doesn't even know what a letter is. It only knows tokens. So your question is already wrong.

Having said that it would probably help to know why you want to skip individual input letters in your parser. Looks like your base concept needs adjustments.


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