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            private void ParseDependencyLine(string line)
            {
                if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
                {
                    return;
                }

                //
                // Remove a trailing '\' character used to signify the list continues on the next line.
                //

                if (line.EndsWith(@"\"))
                {
                    line = line.Substring(0, line.Length - 1);
                }

                line.Trim();

                //
                // Now iterate through the line which can contain zero or more dependencies.
                // Although they are seperated by spaces we can't use Split() here since filenames
                // can also contain spaces that are escaped using backslash.  For some reason only
                // spaces are escaped.  Even literal backslash chars don't need escaping.
                //

                while ((line.Length > 0) && (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line)))
                {
                    int end = FindEndOfFilename(line);

                    string filename = line.Substring(0, end);

                    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(filename))
                    {
                        //
                        // Files with spaces in look like this:
                        //  C:\Program\ Files\ (x86)\ARM\Mali\ Developer\ Tools\OpenGL\ ES\ 1.1\ Emulator\ v1.0\include/GLES2/gl2ext.h \
                        //

                        filename = PathUtils.UnescapePath(filename);

                        filename = PathUtils.ConvertPathCygwinToWindows(filename);

                        if (!m_dependencies.ContainsKey(filename))
                        {
                            m_dependencies.Add(filename, new TaskItem(filename));
                        }
                    }

                    if (end == line.Length)
                    {
                        break;
                    }

                    line = line.Substring(end + 1).Trim();
                }
            }
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            public void Parse(string dependencyFile)
            {
                //
                // Parse GCC and Java-style dependency files.
                //
                // GCC:
                //  AndroidMT/Debug/native-media-jni.obj: \
                //   C:/Users/Justin/documents/visual\ studio\ 2010/Projects/native-media/native-media/jni/native-media-jni.c \
                //
                // JAVA:
                //  AndroidMT/Debug/native-media-jni.class \
                //   : C:/Users/Justin/documents/visual\ studio\ 2010/Projects/native-media/native-media/jni/native-media-jni.java \
                //

                //
                // To reading variable ':' placement headers easier, we read the entire file and reconstitute it around ': ' and ' \'.
                //

                string fileContents = File.ReadAllText(dependencyFile);

                fileContents = fileContents.Replace(System.Environment.NewLine, "");

                string [] dependencyEntries = fileContents.Split(new string [] { ": \\", " \\", ": " }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

                for (int i = 0; i < dependencyEntries.Length; ++i)
                {
                    string line = dependencyEntries [i].Replace(": ", "").Replace(" \\", "").Trim();

                    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(line))
                    {
                        if (i == 0)
                        {
                            string outputFilePath = PathUtils.UnescapePath(line);

                            m_outputFile = new TaskItem(outputFilePath);

                            m_dependencies = new Dictionary <string, ITaskItem> (dependencyEntries.Length);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            ParseDependencyLine(line);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }