Question

I want to catch and ignore and ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error (basically it’s not something I have control over, so I need my program to keep chugging along).

However my try/catch pair doesn’t seem to catch the exception and ignore it. Hopefully you can pick out what I am doing wrong.

The exception occurs at this line

content = extractor.getTextFromPage(page);

Here is my code:

for(int page=1;page<=noPages;page++){
    try{
        System.out.println(page);           
        content = extractor.getTextFromPage(page);
        }
    }   
    catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e){
    System.out.println("This page  can't be read");
    }    
}

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid index: 02
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.CMapAwareDocumentFont.decodeSingleCID(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.CMapAwareDocumentFont.decode(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.PdfContentStreamProcessor.decode(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.PdfContentStreamProcessor.displayPdfString(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.PdfContentStreamProcessor$ShowText.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.PdfContentStreamProcessor.invokeOperator(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.PdfContentStreamProcessor.processContent(Unknown Source)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor.getTextFromPage(Unknown Source)
at com.pdfextractor.main.Extractor.main(Extractor.java:64)

edit: I have put the try/catch within the for loop
and added the stack trace
and removed index=1

Answer 1

Is the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that you put in the catch from the same package as the one being thrown? i.e. java.lang

Or perhaps catch throwable to see if that even works.