// reduced NL parsing without quoted strings and some other stuff

static List<String> nlTok2(String s) {
  List<String> tok = new ArrayList<String>();
  int l = s.length();
  
  int i = 0;
  while (i < l) {
    int j = i;
    char c;
    
    // scan for whitespace
    while (j < l) {
      c = s.charAt(j);
      if (c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == '\r' || c == '\n')
        ++j;
      else
        break;
    }
    
    tok.add(s.substring(i, j));
    i = j;
    if (i >= l) break;
    c = s.charAt(i);

    // scan for non-whitespace
    if (Character.isJavaIdentifierStart(c))
      do ++j; while (j < l && (Character.isJavaIdentifierPart(s.charAt(j)) /*|| s.charAt(j) == '\''*/));
    else if (Character.isDigit(c))
      do ++j; while (j < l && Character.isDigit(s.charAt(j)));
    else
      ++j;

    tok.add(s.substring(i, j));
    i = j;
  }
  
  if ((tok.size() % 2) == 0) tok.add("");
  return tok;
}

Began life as a copy of #1000769