thanks but that didn't work. This has the same problem on Windows2000.
Hariharasubramanian Ranganathan wrote:
> Check for any "null" character (ascii 0) that might be placed in your JSP
> file accidently.
>
> - Hari.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rodney J. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:57 PM
> Subject: white space in JSP
>
>
>
>>using Tomcat 4.0b5, Java 1.3.1 on Solaris
>>
>>I ran across a problem while trying to learn how to program with
>>tomcat/jsp. Any comments or advice would be welcome
>>
>>I was running a simple case statement and got an error stating
>>"Statement
>>not reached".
>>=============================
>>Error: 500
>>Location: /lucas/switch.jsp
>>Internal Servlet Error:
>>
>>org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for
>>
>>
> JSPC:\bin\tomcat\3.2.3\work\localhost_8080%2Flucas\_0002fswitch_0002ejspswit
>
>>ch_jsp_3.java:74: Statement not reached.
>> out.write("\t\r\n\r\n");
>> ^
>>===============================
>>
>>I couldn't figure this out for a while until I understood out how to
>>view
>>the java produced by the jsp code. Because my case statement had
>>whitespaces between jsp tags the jasper engine decided to produce
>>out.write
>>statements in the wrong place.
>>
>>I modified my jsp to work but I wanted to ask if this was a bug.
>>I can just format my code differently, but it seems like a error other
>>newbies would make and I am sure it can get a bit nastier with more
>>complicated code. Is this behaviour part of the spec or can I expect
>>different implementations to behave differently.
>>
>>Rodney
>>
>>Here is a listing to reproduce the error. I have fixed most of the
>>whitespace problem expect for the case statement just before monday.
>>
>>==============================
>><%!
>>java.util.Calendar todaysDate= java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
>>int myDay = todaysDate.get(todaysDate.DAY_OF_WEEK);
>>%>
>>
>><html>
>><head>
>><title>SWITCH</title>
>><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>>
>></head>
>>
>><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
>><p><font size="-1" color="red">
>>
>><% switch (myDay) {
>> case 1: %>
>> Today is Sunday
>><% break; %>
>>
>><% case 2: %>
>> Today is Monday
>><% break;
>>
>> case 3: %>
>> Today is Tuesday
>><% break;
>> case 4: %>
>> Today is Wednesday
>><% break;
>> case 5:%>
>> Today is Thursday
>><% break;
>> case 6: %>
>> Today is Friday
>><% break;
>> case 7: %>
>> Today is Saturday
>><% break;
>> default: %>
>> Invalid day of the week:
>><% break;
>>} %>
>>
>></font></p>
>></body>
>></html>
>>
>
>
