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I tried running javadoc on my application and received a bunch of "illegal character" errors. I have no idea how to fix this, since nothing odd appears in the java file.


 
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Please post here that line 4 of Software.java file.
 
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\191 appears to be 0xbf which is "¿". I am surprised that has been flagged as illegal.
 
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Too difficult a question for "beginning." Moving thread.
 
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Zandis Murāns wrote:Please post here that line 4 of Software.java file.



Here are the first several lines, #4 is /**

 
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Have you been using a word processor to edit your code? They can insert strange control characters which are invisible on text editors.
 
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Have you been using a word processor to edit your code? They can insert strange control characters which are invisible on text editors.



I've been using a combination of WordPad at work, and PageSpinner at home. I don't know what WordPad does, but PS outputs plain text (basically an HTML editor).
 
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WordPad probably saves your source file as an RTF (Rich Text Format) document instead of a plain text file. The compiler ofcourse won't be able to parse your source file if it's saved as RTF.

Use something else - there are lots of good programmer's text editors available. I use Notepad++ sometimes, it's a popular and free text editor with syntax highlighting and other handy features. Or use an IDE such as NetBeans or Eclipse.
 
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NotePad++ is an excellent product. Notepad2 and jEdit are good too. For those of us who usually use Linux, there are some nice built-in programming editors.
 
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Ok, this is officially weird. I work at home (on a Mac ) and at work on a Windows XP ( ), so I keep my java programs on a flash drive. When I got home today I synced the two and tried javadoc on the flash version, received over 100 of the errors I posted above. For some unknown reason I tried javadoc on the newly synced version on my Mac and everything worked fine.
 
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Sounds like an operating-system specific problem. There are differences in the formats of text files, for example Windows uses \r\n for line separator and older Macs use \r and newer Macs use \n (like *nix).
 
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I might agree if the sync didn't have any effect. Javadoc didn't work on either platform against the files on the flash drive; the Mac worked after syncing, but only on its' home drive. I'm curious to see what happens if I copy the files from the flash drive onto the Win drive.
 
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