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Reasigning variables

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Reasigning variables

Nov 5th, 2009

I'm getting StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when I try to reasign the value of a variable.

protString = protString.substring(newRPos+1, input.length());
I understand that this is something I would rather not do... but as I don't know the index of newRPos I can't think of another way to iterate.

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Last edited by peter_budo; Nov 5th, 2009 at 12:14 pm. Reason: Correcting code tags

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Then also check with if (newRPos < protString.length). Also, is there any guarantee that input.length() is going to be larger than newRPos, as both of those are indexes (i.e. a start index and an end index) not a start and length, and I don't know how substring reacts if the end index is smaller than the start index..

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Originally Posted by masijade

... I don't know how substring reacts if the end index is smaller than the start index..

API doc states:

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Throws: IndexOutOfBoundsException - if the beginIndex is negative, or endIndex is larger than the length of this String object, or beginIndex is larger than endIndex.