Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll

From:
Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:18:13 +0100
Message-ID:
<5efbj9-vr7.ln1@s.simpson148.btinternet.com>
On 26/09/12 13:57, Tim Slattery wrote:

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: No group 5
         at java.util.regex.Matcher.group(Matcher.java:470)
         at java.util.regex.Matcher.appendReplacement(Matcher.java:737)
         at java.util.regex.Matcher.replaceAll(Matcher.java:813)
         at java.lang.String.replaceAll(String.java:2189)
         at (the line shown above)


$ cat Replace.java
public class Replace {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         String upload = "oof flange {FileName} dangle";
         String fileName = "wart$5x";
         String result = upload.replaceAll("\\{FileName\\}", fileName);
         System.err.println(result);
     }
}
$ javac Replace.java
$ java Replace
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: No group 5
         at java.util.regex.Matcher.start(Matcher.java:374)
         at java.util.regex.Matcher.appendReplacement(Matcher.java:831)
         at java.util.regex.Matcher.replaceAll(Matcher.java:906)
         at java.lang.String.replaceAll(String.java:2162)
         at Replace.main(Replace.java:5)

<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#replaceAll%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String%29>:

Note that backslashes (\) and dollar signs ($) in the replacement
string may cause the results to be different than if it were being
treated as a literal replacement string


So you probably had a "$5" in your fileName somewhere.

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