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  3. May 2006

Re: IFSFileWriter write of blank String causesExtendedIllegalArgumentException

Joe Pluta wrote:
> It could be as simple as a programmer checking for the last character
> in your string and assuming you wouldn't be writing one with
> zero-length.

Well, you know what happens when you assume.

> My immediate thought would be to test for a zero length string and
> not attempt to write it.

Writing an empty string is an easy way to just get a blank line.

Once I determined what was causing the problem, I just check the
string's length, if it's zero, I just invoke println() instead of
passing the string.

Seems like a bug to me ... although I have a work around.

david

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