function readStringLiteralToken()

in Canvas/CanvasSimple/lib/winjs-4.0.1/js/base.js [8595:8642]
44 lines of code
17 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

                function readStringLiteralToken(text, offset, limit) {
                    var startOffset = offset;
                    var quoteCharCode = text.charCodeAt(offset);
                    var hasEscape = false;
                    offset++;
                    while (offset < limit && !isLineTerminator(text.charCodeAt(offset))) {
                        if (offset + 1 < limit && text.charCodeAt(offset) === /*\*/92) {
                            hasEscape = true;

                            switch (text.charCodeAt(offset + 1)) {
                                case quoteCharCode:
                                case 0x005C:    // \
                                case 0x000A:    // line feed
                                case 0x2028:    // line separator
                                case 0x2029:    // paragraph separator
                                    offset += 2;
                                    continue;

                                case 0x000D:    // carriage return
                                    if (offset + 2 < limit && text.charCodeAt(offset + 2) === 0x000A) {
                                        // Skip \r\n
                                        offset += 3;
                                    } else {
                                        offset += 2;
                                    }
                                    continue;
                            }
                        }
                        offset++;
                        if (text.charCodeAt(offset - 1) === quoteCharCode) {
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                    var length = offset - startOffset;
                    // If we don't have a terminating quote go through the escape path.
                    hasEscape = hasEscape || length === 1 || text.charCodeAt(offset - 1) !== quoteCharCode;
                    var stringValue;
                    if (hasEscape) {
                        stringValue = eval(text.substr(startOffset, length)); // jshint ignore:line
                    } else {
                        stringValue = text.substr(startOffset + 1, length - 2);
                    }
                    return {
                        type: tokenType.stringLiteral,
                        length: length,
                        value: stringValue
                    };
                }