Subj : Problem with split() in Rhino
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Larry Blair <lmb@docent.com>
Date : Mon Apr 21 2003 04:12 pm

I'm having the following problem in Rhino.  It works OK in spidermonkey:

js> var x="%";
js> var re = new RegExp(/^\s*["']|['"]\s+["']|['"]\s*$/);
js> x.split(re);

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.regexp.NativeRegExp.classMatcher(NativeRegExp.java:1728)
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.regexp.NativeRegExp.executeREBytecode(NativeRegExp.java:2076)
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.regexp.NativeRegExp.MatchRegExp(NativeRegExp.java:2443)
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.regexp.NativeRegExp.executeRegExp(NativeRegExp.java:2515)
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.regexp.RegExpImpl.find_split(RegExpImpl.java:221)
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.NativeString.find_split(NativeString.java:478)
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.NativeString.js_split(NativeString.java:573)
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.NativeString.execMethod(NativeString.java:166)

         at org.mozilla.javascript.IdFunction.call(IdFunction.java:78)
         at 
org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.call(ScriptRuntime.java:1191)
         at org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c3.call(<stdin>:3)
         at org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c3.exec(<stdin>)
         at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.evaluateReader(Context.java:820)
         at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.evaluateString(Context.java:784)
         at Shell.processSource(Shell.java:274)
         at Shell.main(Shell.java:92)

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