Problem parsing string arguments

[Eduardo Zacarías B.]

Hello!

I have been using xParam to parse input arguments to my programs with no problems, but I ran into the following issue while parsing a given string:

The NoViableAlt exception is thrown when the string argument contains the character "+"

e.g.

myProgram theString="onlyAlphaNumeric"

goes well, but

myProgram theString="onlyAlphaNumeric+someMore"

fails.

Wondering what's the problem. I thought that the parser would copy the chars from argv if it realizes that is not a number.

Thanks a lot!

Eduardo

[Ronnie Maor]

the shell strips your quotes, so what XParam gets as input is
onlyAlphaNumeric+someMore

which is not a valid string in XParam. You need to give XParam this:
"onlyAlphaNumeric+someMore"

one common way to do this is give this input at the shell:
myProgram 'theString="onlyAlphaNumeric+someMore"'
(added single quotes around all input)