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1. Select JDT UI projectz 2. Select "Find Strings to Externalize" from context menu ==> Internal Error dialog appears (see log below) Hint: one class which causes the error is org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.browsing.LexicalSortingAction java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -12 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.corext.refactoring.nls.NLSScanner.parseTags(NLSScanner.java:78) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.corext.refactoring.nls.NLSScanner.scan(NLSScanner.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.corext.refactoring.nls.NLSScanner.scan(NLSScanner.java:27) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.nls.FindStringsAction.countNotExternalizedStrings(FindStringsAction.java:171) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.nls.FindStringsAction.analyze(FindStringsAction.java:166) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.nls.FindStringsAction.analyze(FindStringsAction.java:121) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.nls.FindStringsAction.analyze(FindStringsAction.java:150) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.nls.FindStringsAction.doRun(FindStringsAction.java:95) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.nls.FindStringsAction.access$3(FindStringsAction.java:81) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.nls.FindStringsAction$4.run(FindStringsAction.java:76) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:56) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.nls.FindStringsAction.run(FindStringsAction.java:74) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PluginAction.runWithEvent(PluginAction.java:204) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:407) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetEvent(ActionContributionItem.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$ActionListener.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$ActionListener.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java(Compiled Code)) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.run(Workbench.java:738) at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:777) at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:319) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:555) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.UIMain.main(UIMain.java:52)
the problem comes from the missing $ at the end of some tags
created a test case
fixed for 20020402