Hi everyone,

Did anyone of you encounter an internal error when trying to compare an arbitrary string to ‘.’? We are running wm 6.1.

You can try it yourself, simply create a small flow:

str1 = ABCDE
str2 = .

BRANCH (Evaluate labels = true)
SEQUENCE (%str1% = %str2%)

If you debug it, it will throw an ‘Internal Exception’ ([ITU.0001.0001]), if you just run it, it will throw:

‘java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 1’

The workaround is easy (i just wrote a small java string compare), but it should not be necessary!

Maybe webMethods interprets the ‘.’ as a number and internally tries to cast the string into a float?

Any ideas ?

Thanks a lot for any suggestion!
Best regards,
Marcus

can u post full java service ?

Hi Rama,

it’s not happening in a java service, my description above was describing the structure of a flow service.

Just create a simple flow service according to the described structure.

Best regards,
Marcus

Seems like a possible bug. You probably want to open a service request with tech support. Unfortunately, the first thing they’ll probably want you to do is upgrade to a more recent version. Have you tried this on another version? I ran this on 6.5 SP2 on Win XP and had no trouble.