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Thread: illegal state exception from regex

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    Default illegal state exception from regex

    If body is the string "{oli22} potatoes are cool" anyone know why when this code returns an illegal state exception: no match found when either of the group(1) begin to look for their patterns. Thanks for you help.


    private static final Pattern BRACE_END = Pattern.compile(".*\\}");
    private static final Pattern EGGS = Pattern.compile("\\{(.*)\\}");
    private static final Pattern BACON = Pattern.compile("\\}(.*)");

    public class jibbles {

    public boolean workdamnyou(String body, Data data){
    if (body.startsWith("{")){
    if (BRACE_END.matcher(body).lookingAt()){
    if (EGGS.matcher(body).find()){
    eggs = EGGS.matcher(body).group(1);
    }
    if (BACON.matcher(body).find()){
    bacon = BACON.matcher(body).group(1);
    }
    }
    }
    }


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    Default Re: illegal state exception from regex

    I switched to using indexOf and substring. everything is hunky-dory now.

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