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| Summary: | Invalid "illegal escape character" warning | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | editor | Reporter: | PEJO89 |
| Component: | Hints & Annotations | Assignee: | issues@editor <issues> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | SIMPLEFIX, USABILITY |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 6.x | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
(In reply to comment #0) > \\ and \{ are valid AFAIK \{ is not a valid escape sequence according to the Java Language Specification, please see details on http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/lexical.html#101089 |
The line: indexOfBegin = lineToParse.indexOf("\\begin\{"); is being underlined with the warning "illegal escape character". \\ and \{ are valid and my program works as expected if I run it.