When the * (wildcard) symbol is used in ranges, the parsing dies with a NullPointerException. That is because input strings with the null value are not handled -- they should be treated as infinity with the respective sign (depending on the side of range where the wildcard is used).
When the
*(wildcard) symbol is used in ranges, the parsing dies with aNullPointerException. That is because input strings with thenullvalue are not handled -- they should be treated as infinity with the respective sign (depending on the side of range where the wildcard is used).