One of the websites I use for work is for Blue Cross. One of the functions shows me what remits are being issued. I enter my facility’s name and the dates I want and it’s supposed to bring them up so that I can view/print them.
For the last 2 weeks I’ve gotten this error:
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: " 1 "
What the heck does this mean? I called the web support line, but all I get is the dreaded “we’re working on it” message.
Just curious.
There’s some code somewhere that is trying to take a string of text like “04232005” and turn it into an internal representation of a date (a Java date Object). The problem is that this method was passed a string that cannot be converted to a date: “1”. Normally, the programmer would have handled this exception by catching it and doing something useful like logging the error if it was part of a batch process, or notifying the user by saying, “Hey Dummy! “1” is not a date. Try again”.