diff --git a/libs/utils/Tokenizer.cpp b/libs/utils/Tokenizer.cpp
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#define LOG_TAG "Tokenizer"
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
+#include <utils/Tokenizer.h>
+
+// Enables debug output for the tokenizer.
+#define DEBUG_TOKENIZER 0
+
+
+namespace android {
+
+static inline bool isDelimiter(char ch, const char* delimiters) {
+    return strchr(delimiters, ch) != NULL;
+}
+
+
+Tokenizer::Tokenizer(const String8& filename, const char* buffer, size_t length) :
+        mFilename(filename), mBuffer(buffer), mLength(length),
+        mCurrent(buffer), mLineNumber(1) {
+}
+
+Tokenizer::~Tokenizer() {
+    munmap((void*)mBuffer, mLength);
+}
+
+status_t Tokenizer::open(const String8& filename, Tokenizer** outTokenizer) {
+    *outTokenizer = NULL;
+
+    int result = NO_ERROR;
+    int fd = ::open(filename.string(), O_RDONLY);
+    if (fd < 0) {
+        result = -errno;
+        LOGE("Error opening file '%s', %s.", filename.string(), strerror(errno));
+    } else {
+        struct stat64 stat;
+        if (fstat64(fd, &stat)) {
+            result = -errno;
+            LOGE("Error getting size of file '%s', %s.", filename.string(), strerror(errno));
+        } else {
+            size_t length = size_t(stat.st_size);
+            void* buffer = mmap(NULL, length, PROT_READ, MAP_FILE | MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
+            if (buffer == MAP_FAILED) {
+                result = -errno;
+                LOGE("Error mapping file '%s', %s.", filename.string(), strerror(errno));
+            } else {
+                if (madvise(buffer, length, MADV_SEQUENTIAL)) {
+                    LOGW("Error calling madvise for mmapped file '%s', %s.", filename.string(),
+                            strerror(errno));
+                }
+
+                *outTokenizer = new Tokenizer(filename, static_cast<const char*>(buffer), length);
+                if (!*outTokenizer) {
+                    result = NO_MEMORY;
+                    LOGE("Error allocating tokenizer for file=%s.", filename.string());
+                    munmap(buffer, length);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        close(fd);
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
+String8 Tokenizer::getLocation() const {
+    String8 result;
+    result.appendFormat("%s:%d", mFilename.string(), mLineNumber);
+    return result;
+}
+
+String8 Tokenizer::peekRemainderOfLine() const {
+    const char* end = getEnd();
+    const char* eol = mCurrent;
+    while (eol != end) {
+        char ch = *eol;
+        if (ch == '\n') {
+            break;
+        }
+        eol += 1;
+    }
+    return String8(mCurrent, eol - mCurrent);
+}
+
+String8 Tokenizer::nextToken(const char* delimiters) {
+#if DEBUG_TOKENIZER
+    LOGD("nextToken");
+#endif
+    const char* end = getEnd();
+    const char* tokenStart = mCurrent;
+    while (mCurrent != end) {
+        char ch = *mCurrent;
+        if (ch == '\n' || isDelimiter(ch, delimiters)) {
+            break;
+        }
+        mCurrent += 1;
+    }
+    return String8(tokenStart, mCurrent - tokenStart);
+}
+
+void Tokenizer::nextLine() {
+#if DEBUG_TOKENIZER
+    LOGD("nextLine");
+#endif
+    const char* end = getEnd();
+    while (mCurrent != end) {
+        char ch = *(mCurrent++);
+        if (ch == '\n') {
+            mLineNumber += 1;
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+void Tokenizer::skipDelimiters(const char* delimiters) {
+#if DEBUG_TOKENIZER
+    LOGD("skipDelimiters");
+#endif
+    const char* end = getEnd();
+    while (mCurrent != end) {
+        char ch = *mCurrent;
+        if (ch == '\n' || !isDelimiter(ch, delimiters)) {
+            break;
+        }
+        mCurrent += 1;
+    }
+}
+
+} // namespace android