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Confusing octal escape sequence

Reports string literals containing an octal escape sequence immediately followed by a digit.

Such strings may be confusing, and are often the result of errors in escape code creation.

Example:

System.out.println("\1234"); // Octal escape sequence '\123' immediately followed by a digit

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023