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+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Copyright 2019 Dominik Honnef. All rights reserved.
+
+package staticcheck
+
+import "strconv"
+
+func parseStructTag(tag string) (map[string][]string, error) {
+ // FIXME(dh): detect missing closing quote
+ out := map[string][]string{}
+
+ for tag != "" {
+ // Skip leading space.
+ i := 0
+ for i < len(tag) && tag[i] == ' ' {
+ i++
+ }
+ tag = tag[i:]
+ if tag == "" {
+ break
+ }
+
+ // Scan to colon. A space, a quote or a control character is a syntax error.
+ // Strictly speaking, control chars include the range [0x7f, 0x9f], not just
+ // [0x00, 0x1f], but in practice, we ignore the multi-byte control characters
+ // as it is simpler to inspect the tag's bytes than the tag's runes.
+ i = 0
+ for i < len(tag) && tag[i] > ' ' && tag[i] != ':' && tag[i] != '"' && tag[i] != 0x7f {
+ i++
+ }
+ if i == 0 || i+1 >= len(tag) || tag[i] != ':' || tag[i+1] != '"' {
+ break
+ }
+ name := string(tag[:i])
+ tag = tag[i+1:]
+
+ // Scan quoted string to find value.
+ i = 1
+ for i < len(tag) && tag[i] != '"' {
+ if tag[i] == '\\' {
+ i++
+ }
+ i++
+ }
+ if i >= len(tag) {
+ break
+ }
+ qvalue := string(tag[:i+1])
+ tag = tag[i+1:]
+
+ value, err := strconv.Unquote(qvalue)
+ if err != nil {
+ return nil, err
+ }
+ out[name] = append(out[name], value)
+ }
+ return out, nil
+}