return expression.substring(start, idx);
        }

        public int getPosition() {
            return idx < expression.length() ? idx : EOF;
        }

        // to make tokenizer look pretty in debugger
        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return idx < expression.length() ? expression.substring(idx) : "<EOF>";
        }
    }

    private ReflectionValueExtractor() {}

                if (pomFile.canRead()) {
                    return length != pomFile.length() || timestamp != pomFile.lastModified();
                } else {
                    // if the POM didn't exist, retry if any repo is configured to always update
                    boolean snapshot = pomArtifact.isSnapshot();
                    for (ArtifactRepository repository : remoteRepositories) {

     |
     | An encouraged best practice for profile identification is to use a consistent naming convention
     | for profiles, such as 'env-dev', 'env-test', 'env-production', 'user-jdcasey', 'user-brett', etc.
     | This will make it more intuitive to understand what the set of introduced profiles is attempting
     | to accomplish, particularly when you only have a list of profile id's for debug.
     |

            boolean retry = true;

            // this will run at most twice. The first time, the firstRun flag is turned off, and if the retry flag
            // is set on the first run, it will be turned off and not re-set on the second try. This is because the
            // only way the retry flag can be set is if ( firstRun == true ).
            while (firstRun || retry) {