How to match a string, but case-insensitively?

Question

Let\'s say that I want to match \"beer\", but don\'t care about case sensitivity.

Currently I am defining a token to be (\'b\'|\'B\' \'e\'|\'E\' \'e\'|\'E\' \'r\'|

Answer 1

A solution I used in C#: use ASCII code to shift character to smaller case.

class CaseInsensitiveStream : Antlr4.Runtime.AntlrInputStream {
  public CaseInsensitiveStream(string sExpr)
     : base(sExpr) {
  }
  public override int La(int index) {
     if(index == 0) return 0;
     if(index < 0) index++;
     int pdx = p + index - 1;
     if(pdx < 0 || pdx >= n) return TokenConstants.Eof;
     var x1 = data[pdx];
     return (x1 >= 65 && x1 <= 90) ? (97 + x1 - 65) : x1;
  }
}