was copying and pasting code fragment from an example text, attempted to reformat the text after pasting, used
alt+shift+f a number of times, unexpected exception occured

the code fragment was


     String[][] employeeNames =
     {
        { "Jan", "Frank", "Wess", "Pat", "Donald" },
        { "Stan", "Beth", "Harold", "Kevin" },
        { "Gary", "Greg", "Les", "Karen", "Tom", "Abe" },
        { "Pete", "Clari", "Seth", "Arnold", "Abdul" }
     };