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I am trying to validate the phone number with a method called isValidAddress and whenever it gets to that line of code in the while loop I get a lot of red line java exceptions. Any idea why?

I am refferring to lines 130-138

 
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Do you have a regular expression for the phone numbers?
 
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Red line java exceptions? I'm going to guess that if you hover your mouse over the red line, it will tell you what the exception actually is. But really you should configure your GUI to show you the actual compiler error messages somewhere, if it isn't already configured that way.

When you do find out, don't forget to tell us exactly what the error message says and what line of code it refers to. Anything less than that is not really something that somebody who isn't looking at your screen can work with.
 
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Here is the output when you enter an invalid phone number

run:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.regex.Matcher.getTextLength(Matcher.java:1234) at java.util.regex.Matcher.getTextLength(Matcher.java:1234)
at java.util.regex.Matcher.reset(Matcher.java:308)
at java.util.regex.Matcher.<init>(Matcher.java:228)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.matcher(Pattern.java:1088)
at pa4.pa4Delegate.isValidEmailAddress(pa4Delegate.java:77)
at pa4.pa4View$AllWidgetsListener.actionPerformed(pa4View.java:134)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2018)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2341)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6516)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3320)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6281)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2229)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4872)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2287)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4698)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4832)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4492)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4422)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2273)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2719)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4698)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:735)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:694)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:692)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:708)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:706)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:705)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)
 
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Do you have a regular expression for the phone numbers?



Not sure what you mean. Care to clarify?

And for the others Sorry. I should have attached the results with the code. My apologizes
 
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Any ideas?
 
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This line in the stack trace:

at pa4.pa4Delegate.isValidEmailAddress(pa4Delegate.java:77)



says that the exception occurred in your pa4Delegate class, in the isValidEmailAddress method, at line 77. So... what's that line of code? You didn't show us that class, is that because it isn't your code? If you don't have access to it then have a look at the next line of the stack trace and find the line of code which it points to.
 
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Does this help? This isn't the method I am referencing so I don't know why I would have a null pointer here.
 
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Ryan O'Neill wrote:This isn't the method I am referencing...



It isn't? It has the right name, but maybe it's from some class other than pa4Delegate? The stack trace pretty clearly says that you're calling a method named isValidEmailAddress in that class. And it tells you where you're calling it from. So, could you go back and double-check?
 
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Wow... line 138 I meant to reference the validation of phone number not email. Thanks so much I have been on this error for several hours now.
 
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Ok I just tried it, and it gives me the same error when I run the correct validateMobileNumber.

run:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.regex.Matcher.getTextLength(Matcher.java:1234) at java.util.regex.Matcher.getTextLength(Matcher.java:1234)
at java.util.regex.Matcher.reset(Matcher.java:308)
at java.util.regex.Matcher.<init>(Matcher.java:228)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.matcher(Pattern.java:1088)
at pa4.pa4Delegate.validateMobileNumber(pa4Delegate.java:84)
at pa4.pa4View$AllWidgetsListener.actionPerformed(pa4View.java:140)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2018)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2341)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6516)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3320)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6281)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2229)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4872)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2287)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4698)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4832)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4492)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4422)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2273)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2719)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4698)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:735)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:694)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:692)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:708)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:706)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:705)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)
 
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Okay... I already showed you how to use the stack trace to find the line which throws the exception. So do that, and look at the line you find and ask yourself why it's throwing that exception.
 
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I know where it dies on line 88 but I don't know why. I am not real familiar with pattern matching at all.

 
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But the exception you have is a NullPointerException, isn't it? So thinking of explanations which involve pattern-matching is way off course. The explanation has to be that a variable in that line of code has a null value. You can find out which one it is by putting in some debug code, or if you're using a GUI by running your code in debug mode and putting a breakpoint there.
 
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Yes it is.

if you're using a GUI by running your code in debug mode and putting a breakpoint there.

How do I do that?
 
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This isn't the time for you to stop and spend time learning how to use the debugger in your GUI. So if you don't know how, then don't worry about it yet. You can find out if a variable is null by using System.out.println(variable) to write it to the console, which I assume you can see in your GUI when you run your code.
 
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Ok so there is something in the variable newPhone. And that is where it errors out at. Does that mean that something with my method is wrong?
 
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If newPhone is null (I assume that's what you meant?) then the error is that you haven't provided it with a value before trying to apply the regex to it. That might mean there's missing code, or something else. We haven't seen your latest code but in the original code you posted I notice that you declared newPhone as an instance variable and then redeclared it as a local variable somewhere. Hiding variables like that can easily lead to confusion.
 
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NewPhone contains a string, so it is not null. It is user driven, but it still contains something every time.

 
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What Paul said.

Paul Clapham wrote:you declared newPhone as an instance variable and then redeclared it as a local variable somewhere. Hiding variables like that can easily lead to confusion.

 
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Ryan O'Neill wrote:NewPhone contains a string, so it is not null.



How does the one follow from the other?
 
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On line 147 I declare it as a local variable. Where do I declare it as a local variable?
I just
and nothing printed out. So How do I fix my declaration problem?

Edit @ 10:45 I printed out the wrong variable
I will print again with newPhone as variable
Ok It still did not print anything

 
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Use the search function in your editor to find instances of the string "newPhone". Some of those will be declarations. (Don't forget to start scanning from the beginning.)
 
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Hi Ryan O'Neill,
As your question is related to 'validate the phone number'!
If you try to use

But as per theory '[1-9] matches the range of characters between 1 and 9, inclusive.'
But as per my thinking validation is not only mobile number's each digit is between 0-9 or 1-9 whatever, but
There is some pattern in mobile number also with Area code,Prefix,Line number.
This explains in What do digits in phone numbers mean?
other lots of Regular Expression Phone Number validation in Java.

Question:- Why ArrayList<String> used? Do you trying to program should work on Pc which has older version of java also?
suggestion:- If you are using IDE then you can try to static analyze your full project so minor mistakes can identify & solve as per suggestions. I used eclipse IDE & static analysis tools like 'PMD, findbugs, codepro, checkstyle, or make java compiler warnings/errors very strict.
Hope my this message helps you.
 
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