at com.oroinc.text.regex.Perl5Matcher._match(Perl5

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Software Troubleshooting
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at com.oroinc.text.regex.Perl5Matcher._match(Perl5Matcher.java)
at com.oroinc.text.regex.Perl5Matcher._match(Perl5Matcher.java)
at com.oroinc.text.regex.Perl5Matcher._match(Perl5Matcher.java)
at com.oroinc.text.regex.Perl5Matcher._match(Perl5Matcher.java)

That's the error I'm getting when I try to compile, and the IDE just says Compiling.... forever. The sketch compiled fine 10 minutes ago and all I did was add some Serial.println's. I have no idea what the errors mean; can somebody translate what that error code actually means?

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Did you add comments, too? The IDE sometimes has problems with certain characters in comments. Yes, they should be ignored. It's the regex parser that is trying to strip the comments out, though, and failing.

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I found the comment bug by googling, but it actually was NOT in comments. I had a statement like so:

Serial.println("t:);

it should have been

Serial.println("t:");

I don't know why the parser error happened instead of a normal compiler error which would have generously identified the line with the error in it.