Exception

[Deepa Krishnan]

getting java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when doing this

I am sending like this from jsp
<input name="SUBPROGRAM_CD" type="hidden" value=''>
Ejb receiving it like this

char subprogCode;

subprogCode=((String)request.get("SUBPROGRAM_CD")).charAt(0);

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

If the "value" attribute is the empty string, then it's not surprising that the string has no character 0 -- it has no characters at all, right?

[Deepa Krishnan]

yeah,you are right.
As per the requirement,i might be a space or a character.
can you suggest another way of converting that into a char.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

If it's a space, that's fine. But if it's zero length, then you have to check for that before calling charAt(0), of course.

String code = (String) request.get("SUBPROGRAM_CD");
if (code == null || code.equals(""))
    subprogCode=' '; // space
else
    subprogCode=code.charAt(0);

[Deepa Krishnan]

thanks Friedman-Hill