Re: Scanner Bug?

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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:59:43 -0800

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Peter Duniho wrote:

The only thing that would prevent it from doing that is an exception
during reading. Why an exception would occur, I have no idea. But have
you checked the return value from Scanner.ioException() when you detect
the invalid input, to see if there was in fact one?

I think this is a good idea. Unfortunately, ioException() returns null
and the input is still only 1024 bytes long. Oh well.

<snippet>
     public static void main( String[] args )
             throws Exception
     {
         makeTestSource( FILE );
         Scanner scanner = new Scanner( new File( FILE ) ).useDelimiter(
                 "\\z" );
         String fileContents = scanner.next();
         System.err.println( scanner.ioException() );

         System.err.println( "fileContents.length()=" +
fileContents.length() );
         testContents( fileContents );
     }
</snippet>

<output>
run:
null
fileContents.length()=1024
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Result was: 28,
expected 283
         at scannerbug.ScannerBug.testContents(ScannerBug.java:52)
         at scannerbug.ScannerBug.main(ScannerBug.java:27)
Java Result: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)
</output>

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