Example usage for org.json JSONTokener skipTo

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In this page you can find the example usage for org.json JSONTokener skipTo.

Prototype

public char skipTo(char to) 

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Skip characters until the next character is the requested character.

Usage

From source file:com.nosoop.json.VDF.java

/**
 * Attempts to convert what is assumed to be a JSONTokener containing a
 * String with VDF text into the JSON format.
 *
 * @param string Input data, assumed to be in the Valve Data Format.
 * @param convertArrays Whether or not to convert VDF-formatted arrays into
 * JSONArrays./* w w w . j ava  2 s  .c o  m*/
 * @return A JSON representation of the assumed-VDF data.
 * @throws JSONException Parse exception?
 */
public static JSONObject toJSONObject(JSONTokener x, boolean convertArrays) throws JSONException {
    JSONObject jo = new JSONObject();

    while (x.more()) {
        char c = x.nextClean();

        switch (c) {
        case QUOTE:
            // Case that it is a String key, expect its value next.
            String key = x.nextString(QUOTE);

            char ctl = x.nextClean();
            if (ctl == SLASH) {
                if (x.next() == SLASH) {
                    // Comment -- ignore the rest of the line.
                    x.skipTo(NEWLINE);
                    ctl = x.nextClean();
                }
            }

            // Case that the next thing is another String value; add.
            if (ctl == QUOTE) {
                String value = getVDFValue(x, QUOTE);
                jo.put(key, value);
            } // Or a nested KeyValue pair. Parse then add.
            else if (ctl == L_BRACE) {
                jo.put(key, toJSONObject(x, convertArrays));
            }

            // TODO Add support for bracketed tokens?

            break;
        case R_BRACE:
            // Case that we are done parsing this KeyValue collection.
            // Return it (back to the calling toJSONObject() method).
            return jo;
        case '\0':
            // Disregard null character.
            break;
        case SLASH:
            if (x.next() == SLASH) {
                // It's a comment. Skip to the next line.
                x.skipTo(NEWLINE);
                break;
            }
        default:
            String fmtError = "Unexpected character \'%s\'";
            throw x.syntaxError(String.format(fmtError, c));
        }
    }

    if (convertArrays) {
        return convertVDFArrays(jo);
    }

    return jo;
}

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