groovy

MultipleCompilationErrorsException "unexpected char"

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: command line processing
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    Linux (RHEL 5, Fedora Core 5)
  • Number of attachments :
    0

Description

Getting an error in groovy one-liners:

$ groovy -e 'println "Hello, World!"'
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, script_from_command_line: 1: unexpected char: 0xFFFF @ line 1, column 23.
1 error

Putting the same thing in a file works fine. It doesn't happen for the following:

$ groovy -e 'println '\''Hello, World!'\'
$ groovy -e 'println "Hello, World!";'
$ groovy -e 'println "";'
$ groovy -e ''
$ groovy -e 'println 1'
$ groovy -e 'println System.properties'

When you use a zero-length string literal, you get a slightly different error:

$ groovy -e 'println ""'
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, script_from_command_line: 1: unexpected char: '"' @ line 1, column 9.
1 error

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    Reporter:
    Mike Dillon
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