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class parameter missing final quote

I have the following code

public class MyClass {
   public MyClass (String myString){
   myFlag=myString
   }
   ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("Path to my application",  "variousflags", myFlag)
   Process p = pb.start();
   }

When I run

myClass("worddocument.doc")

pb doesn’t start. In debugging MyClass, I noticed that:

 myFlag ="worddocument.doc

without the final quote. For a flag to work in the ProcessBuilder, it has to within quotes. I have to include the line

myFlag= myFlag.concat(""");

which gives me the error message in Netbeans "unclosed string literal". How can get rid of the neatbeans error, or even better, how can I get the final quote back? Thanks

Solution

  • The issue has disappeared now :-) It must have been a bug in netbeans or java... Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the issue, and I am not sure exactly when it fixed itself. If encountering the same problem, I would suggest: 1-restarting computer, 2-restarting Netbeans, 3-commenting out 

    myFlag= myFlag.concat("\"");