Transforming tokens after matching

[k1w1]

In Flex lexers a common pattern is to transform the matched text slightly, e.g. to strip characters like quotes or a prefix. Something like:

\$[a-z]+      { return yytext[1]; }

This will return the string without the $ prefix. From reading the documentation it was not clear to me how to do this with Chevrotain. Is there a way to transform the output of the regex match before it is passed to the parser?

[k1w1]

I see now that https://chevrotain.io/docs/guide/custom_token_patterns.html#custom-payloads perfectly describes my use case. I didn't realize this at first glance because it seems to handling a more complex case.