function scanNext()

in src/vs/base/common/json.ts [362:517]
122 lines of code
42 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

	function scanNext(): SyntaxKind {

		value = '';
		scanError = ScanError.None;

		tokenOffset = pos;

		if (pos >= len) {
			// at the end
			tokenOffset = len;
			return token = SyntaxKind.EOF;
		}

		let code = text.charCodeAt(pos);
		// trivia: whitespace
		if (isWhiteSpace(code)) {
			do {
				pos++;
				value += String.fromCharCode(code);
				code = text.charCodeAt(pos);
			} while (isWhiteSpace(code));

			return token = SyntaxKind.Trivia;
		}

		// trivia: newlines
		if (isLineBreak(code)) {
			pos++;
			value += String.fromCharCode(code);
			if (code === CharacterCodes.carriageReturn && text.charCodeAt(pos) === CharacterCodes.lineFeed) {
				pos++;
				value += '\n';
			}
			return token = SyntaxKind.LineBreakTrivia;
		}

		switch (code) {
			// tokens: []{}:,
			case CharacterCodes.openBrace:
				pos++;
				return token = SyntaxKind.OpenBraceToken;
			case CharacterCodes.closeBrace:
				pos++;
				return token = SyntaxKind.CloseBraceToken;
			case CharacterCodes.openBracket:
				pos++;
				return token = SyntaxKind.OpenBracketToken;
			case CharacterCodes.closeBracket:
				pos++;
				return token = SyntaxKind.CloseBracketToken;
			case CharacterCodes.colon:
				pos++;
				return token = SyntaxKind.ColonToken;
			case CharacterCodes.comma:
				pos++;
				return token = SyntaxKind.CommaToken;

			// strings
			case CharacterCodes.doubleQuote:
				pos++;
				value = scanString();
				return token = SyntaxKind.StringLiteral;

			// comments
			case CharacterCodes.slash:
				const start = pos - 1;
				// Single-line comment
				if (text.charCodeAt(pos + 1) === CharacterCodes.slash) {
					pos += 2;

					while (pos < len) {
						if (isLineBreak(text.charCodeAt(pos))) {
							break;
						}
						pos++;

					}
					value = text.substring(start, pos);
					return token = SyntaxKind.LineCommentTrivia;
				}

				// Multi-line comment
				if (text.charCodeAt(pos + 1) === CharacterCodes.asterisk) {
					pos += 2;

					const safeLength = len - 1; // For lookahead.
					let commentClosed = false;
					while (pos < safeLength) {
						const ch = text.charCodeAt(pos);

						if (ch === CharacterCodes.asterisk && text.charCodeAt(pos + 1) === CharacterCodes.slash) {
							pos += 2;
							commentClosed = true;
							break;
						}
						pos++;
					}

					if (!commentClosed) {
						pos++;
						scanError = ScanError.UnexpectedEndOfComment;
					}

					value = text.substring(start, pos);
					return token = SyntaxKind.BlockCommentTrivia;
				}
				// just a single slash
				value += String.fromCharCode(code);
				pos++;
				return token = SyntaxKind.Unknown;

			// numbers
			case CharacterCodes.minus:
				value += String.fromCharCode(code);
				pos++;
				if (pos === len || !isDigit(text.charCodeAt(pos))) {
					return token = SyntaxKind.Unknown;
				}
			// found a minus, followed by a number so
			// we fall through to proceed with scanning
			// numbers
			case CharacterCodes._0:
			case CharacterCodes._1:
			case CharacterCodes._2:
			case CharacterCodes._3:
			case CharacterCodes._4:
			case CharacterCodes._5:
			case CharacterCodes._6:
			case CharacterCodes._7:
			case CharacterCodes._8:
			case CharacterCodes._9:
				value += scanNumber();
				return token = SyntaxKind.NumericLiteral;
			// literals and unknown symbols
			default:
				// is a literal? Read the full word.
				while (pos < len && isUnknownContentCharacter(code)) {
					pos++;
					code = text.charCodeAt(pos);
				}
				if (tokenOffset !== pos) {
					value = text.substring(tokenOffset, pos);
					// keywords: true, false, null
					switch (value) {
						case 'true': return token = SyntaxKind.TrueKeyword;
						case 'false': return token = SyntaxKind.FalseKeyword;
						case 'null': return token = SyntaxKind.NullKeyword;
					}
					return token = SyntaxKind.Unknown;
				}
				// some
				value += String.fromCharCode(code);
				pos++;
				return token = SyntaxKind.Unknown;
		}
	}