int string()

in tools/dev/awk/lex.c [357:434]
74 lines of code
39 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

int string(void)
{
	int c, n;
	char *s, *bp;
	static char *buf = 0;
	static int bufsz = 500;

	if (buf == 0 && (buf = (char *) malloc(bufsz)) == NULL)
		FATAL("out of space for strings");
	for (bp = buf; (c = input()) != '"'; ) {
		if (!adjbuf(&buf, &bufsz, bp-buf+2, 500, &bp, "string"))
			FATAL("out of space for string %.10s...", buf);
		switch (c) {
		case '\n':
		case '\r':
		case 0:
			SYNTAX( "non-terminated string %.10s...", buf );
			lineno++;
			if (c == 0)	/* hopeless */
				FATAL( "giving up" );
			break;
		case '\\':
			c = input();
			switch (c) {
			case '"': *bp++ = '"'; break;
			case 'n': *bp++ = '\n'; break;	
			case 't': *bp++ = '\t'; break;
			case 'f': *bp++ = '\f'; break;
			case 'r': *bp++ = '\r'; break;
			case 'b': *bp++ = '\b'; break;
			case 'v': *bp++ = '\v'; break;
			case 'a': *bp++ = '\007'; break;
			case '\\': *bp++ = '\\'; break;

			case '0': case '1': case '2': /* octal: \d \dd \ddd */
			case '3': case '4': case '5': case '6': case '7':
				n = c - '0';
				if ((c = peek()) >= '0' && c < '8') {
					n = 8 * n + input() - '0';
					if ((c = peek()) >= '0' && c < '8')
						n = 8 * n + input() - '0';
				}
				*bp++ = n;
				break;

			case 'x':	/* hex  \x0-9a-fA-F + */
			    {	char xbuf[100], *px;
				for (px = xbuf; (c = input()) != 0 && px-xbuf < 100-2; ) {
					if (isdigit(c)
					 || (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f')
					 || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F'))
						*px++ = c;
					else
						break;
				}
				*px = 0;
				unput(c);
	  			sscanf(xbuf, "%x", &n);
				*bp++ = n;
				break;
			    }

			default: 
				*bp++ = c;
				break;
			}
			break;
		default:
			*bp++ = c;
			break;
		}
	}
	*bp = 0; 
	s = tostring(buf);
	*bp++ = ' '; *bp++ = 0;
	yylval.cp = setsymtab(buf, s, 0.0, CON|STR|DONTFREE, symtab);
	RET(STRING);
}