Re: StringTokenizer() with "\" character

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:38:04 -0400
Message-ID:
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snehapshinde@gmail.com wrote:

String filename="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
5.5\webapps\upload\multipartform.htm";


You need to double the backslashes.

StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer(filename,"\",false);
                    String v="";
                    while(st.hasMoreTokens())
                    {
                     v=st.nextToken();
                    }
                    out.print(" filename is "+v+" this");

This piece of code is throwing following exception-
An error occurred at line: 3 in the jsp file: /Save.jsp
Generated servlet error:
String literal is not properly closed by a double-quote

But if i replace "\" with ".", then it is working fine,
What is the problem with "\"?
Plz [sic] Help!


The problem was programmer error.

<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/lexical.html#3.10.6>

It is a compile-time error if the character following
a backslash in an escape is not an ASCII
b, t, n, f, r, ", ', \, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7.


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