Illegal character in path at index 16

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I am getting the following error in RAD   java net URISyntaxException  Illegal character in path at index 16  file  E  Program Files IBM SDP runtimes base         Could you please let me know what is the error and how to resolve it

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I got this error today and unlike all the above answers my error was due to a new reason.

In my Japanese translation strings.xml file, I had removed a required string.

Some how android mixed up all the other string and this caused an error.

The solution was to include all the strings from my normal, English strings.xml

Including those strings which weren't translated to Japanese.

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Had the same problem with spaces  Combination of URL and URI solved it   URL url   new URL  file  E  Program Files IBM SDP runtimes base    URI uri   new URI url getProtocol    url getUserInfo    url getHost    url getPort    url getPath    url getQuery    url getRef         Source  https   stackoverflow com a 749829 435605

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Did you try this   new File   lt PATH OF YOUR FILE gt    toURI   toString

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I had a similar problem for xml  Just passing the error and solution  edited Jonathon version    Code   HttpGet xmlGet   new HttpGet  xmlContent      Xml format    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8  standalone  yes   gt   lt employee gt       lt code gt CA lt  code gt       lt name gt Cath lt  name gt       lt salary gt 300 lt  salary gt   lt  employee gt    Error   java lang IllegalArgumentException  Illegal character in path at index 0   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8  standalone  yes   gt   lt contents gt       lt portalarea gt CA lt  portalarea gt       lt portalsubarea gt Cath lt  portalsubarea gt       lt direction gt Navigator lt  direction gt   lt  contents gt      at java net URI create URI java 859      at org apache http client methods HttpGet  lt init gt  HttpGet java 69      at de vogella jersey first Hello validate Hello java 56    Not Exactly perfect Solution    error vanished for that instance    String theXml   URLEncoder encode  xmlContent   UTF-8     HttpGet xmlGet   new HttpGet  theXml      Any idea What i should be doing   It just cleared passed but had problem while doing this   HttpResponse response   httpclient execute  xmlGet

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the install directory can t have space  reinstall the software will correct it

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I ran into the same thing with the Bing Map API  URLEncoder just made things worse  but a replaceAll       20    did the trick

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If this error occurs with the jdk use this    progra 1 instead of program files in the path example     c  progra 1 java instead of c  program files java   It will be ok always avoid space in java code       it can be used for every thing in program files  otherwise put quotes at the beginning and the en of path   c

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There s an illegal character at index 16   I d say it doesn t like the space in the path   You can percent encode special characters like spaces   Replace it with a  20 in this case   The question I linked to above suggests using URLEncoder   String thePath    file   E  Program Files IBM SDP runtimes base   thePath   URLEncoder encode thePath   UTF-8

[java] Illegal character in path at index 16

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