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Does anyone know why the following regex:
class \S*|\S* \S*\([^;]*\)\s*{

Gives me this exception:
java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition near index 28

Index 28 is the 's' in "\s". I'm just trying to allow for whitespace.

Thanks

On 25 May 2004 23:01:17 -0700, (DemmeGod) wrote:

>Does anyone know why the following regex:
>class \S*|\S* \S*\([^;]*\)\s*{
>
>Gives me this exception:
>java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition near index 28
>
>Index 28 is the 's' in "\s". I'm just trying to allow for whitespace.
>
>Thanks

The problem has to be the open brace at the end. If you don't escape
it like you did the parentheses, the compiler expects to see a {m,n}
type quantifier. By my count, that's index 29; looks like the
compiler miscounted.

Gotcha... The test regex engine I ran it through detected there was no
closing brace and ignored it as a special character.

Alan Moore <> wrote in message news:<>. ..
> On 25 May 2004 23:01:17 -0700, (DemmeGod) wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know why the following regex:
> >class \S*|\S* \S*\([^;]*\)\s*{
> >
> >Gives me this exception:
> >java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition near index 28
> >
> >Index 28 is the 's' in "\s". I'm just trying to allow for whitespace.
> >
> >Thanks
>
> The problem has to be the open brace at the end. If you don't escape
> it like you did the parentheses, the compiler expects to see a {m,n}
> type quantifier. By my count, that's index 29; looks like the
> compiler miscounted.