Function advance

jsonpath.js:1287–1338

()

    }

    function advance() {
        var ch;

        skipComment();

        if (index >= length) {
            return {
                type: Token.EOF,
                lineNumber: lineNumber,
                lineStart: lineStart,
                start: index,
                end: index
            };
        }

        ch = source.charCodeAt(index);

        if (isIdentifierStart(ch)) {
            return scanIdentifier();
        }

        // Very common: ( and ) and ;
        if (ch === 0x28 || ch === 0x29 || ch === 0x3B) {
            return scanPunctuator();
        }

        // String literal starts with single quote (U+0027) or double quote (U+0022).
        if (ch === 0x27 || ch === 0x22) {
            return scanStringLiteral();
        }


        // Dot (.) U+002E can also start a floating-point number, hence the need
        // to check the next character.
        if (ch === 0x2E) {
            if (isDecimalDigit(source.charCodeAt(index + 1))) {
                return scanNumericLiteral();
            }
            return scanPunctuator();
        }

        if (isDecimalDigit(ch)) {
            return scanNumericLiteral();
        }

        // Slash (/) U+002F can also start a regex.
        if (extra.tokenize && ch === 0x2F) {
            return advanceSlash();
        }

        return scanPunctuator();
    }

    function collectToken() {
        var loc, token, range, value;