[FIXED] Illegal character in path at index 25

Issue

I'm getting an error:

WARNING: Illegal character in path at index 25: file:/C:/Users/bkuhl/Java_Projects/CMT/build/web/WEB-INF/lib/antlr-2.7.6.jar

I'm having trouble determining what the cause here might be. The stack trace is

    java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 25: file:/C:/Users/bkuhl/Java_Projects/CMT/build/web/WEB-INF/lib/antlr-2.7.6.jar
        at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2829)
        at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3002)
        at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3086)
        at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3034)
        at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:595)
        at java.net.URL.toURI(URL.java:936)
.......

I'm at a complete loss on where to look. This same code is working on my co-workers machine so I figure it must be a path problem. The trouble is, I can't figure out where to look...

Solution

Let me guess, your co-worker has no directory "Java_Projects". The 25th character is the underscore "_". Either you change the path or you escape the character.

Usually a URLEncoder can help in this case.

Answered By - Matt Handy
Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (JavaFixing Admin)