Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll
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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