bool ReadFileToArray()

in util/process_wrapper/utils.cc [52:102]

• 39 lines of code
• 11 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

bool ReadFileToArray(const System::StrType& file_path,
                     System::StrVecType& vec) {
  std::ifstream file(file_path);
  if (file.fail()) {
    std::cerr << "process wrapper error: failed to open file: "
              << ToUtf8(file_path) << '\n';
    return false;
  }
  std::string read_line, escaped_line;
  while (std::getline(file, read_line)) {
    // handle CRLF files when as they might be
    // written on windows and read from linux
    if (!read_line.empty() && read_line.back() == '\r') {
      read_line.pop_back();
    }
    // Skip empty lines if any
    if (read_line.empty()) {
      continue;
    }

    // a \ at the end of a line allows us to escape the new line break,
    // \\ yields a single \, so \\\ translates to a single \ and a new line
    // escape
    int end_backslash_count = 0;
    for (std::string::reverse_iterator rit = read_line.rbegin();
         rit != read_line.rend() && *rit == '\\'; ++rit) {
      end_backslash_count++;
    }

    // a 0 or pair number of backslashes do not lead to a new line escape
    bool escape = false;
    if (end_backslash_count & 1) {
      escape = true;
    }

    // remove backslashes
    while (end_backslash_count > 0) {
      end_backslash_count -= 2;
      read_line.pop_back();
    }

    if (escape) {
      read_line.push_back('\n');
      escaped_line += read_line;
    } else {
      vec.push_back(FromUtf8(escaped_line + read_line));
      escaped_line.clear();
    }
  }
  return true;
}