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+'use strict';
+
+var whitespace = require('is-whitespace-character');
+var locate = require('../locate/code-inline');
+
+module.exports = inlineCode;
+inlineCode.locator = locate;
+
+var C_TICK = '`';
+
+/* Tokenise inline code. */
+function inlineCode(eat, value, silent) {
+ var length = value.length;
+ var index = 0;
+ var queue = '';
+ var tickQueue = '';
+ var contentQueue;
+ var subqueue;
+ var count;
+ var openingCount;
+ var subvalue;
+ var character;
+ var found;
+ var next;
+
+ while (index < length) {
+ if (value.charAt(index) !== C_TICK) {
+ break;
+ }
+
+ queue += C_TICK;
+ index++;
+ }
+
+ if (!queue) {
+ return;
+ }
+
+ subvalue = queue;
+ openingCount = index;
+ queue = '';
+ next = value.charAt(index);
+ count = 0;
+
+ while (index < length) {
+ character = next;
+ next = value.charAt(index + 1);
+
+ if (character === C_TICK) {
+ count++;
+ tickQueue += character;
+ } else {
+ count = 0;
+ queue += character;
+ }
+
+ if (count && next !== C_TICK) {
+ if (count === openingCount) {
+ subvalue += queue + tickQueue;
+ found = true;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ queue += tickQueue;
+ tickQueue = '';
+ }
+
+ index++;
+ }
+
+ if (!found) {
+ if (openingCount % 2 !== 0) {
+ return;
+ }
+
+ queue = '';
+ }
+
+ /* istanbul ignore if - never used (yet) */
+ if (silent) {
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ contentQueue = '';
+ subqueue = '';
+ length = queue.length;
+ index = -1;
+
+ while (++index < length) {
+ character = queue.charAt(index);
+
+ if (whitespace(character)) {
+ subqueue += character;
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (subqueue) {
+ if (contentQueue) {
+ contentQueue += subqueue;
+ }
+
+ subqueue = '';
+ }
+
+ contentQueue += character;
+ }
+
+ return eat(subvalue)({
+ type: 'inlineCode',
+ value: contentQueue
+ });
+}