Exception on sending message with underline character

[azimot]

i catch exception when i want to sending underline '_' to bot

org.telegram.telegrambots.TelegramApiException: Error at sendmessage: 
Bad Request: Can't parse message text: Can't find end of the entity starting at byte offset 264

i find that happen when i had underline character in my message text it's seems underline is a special character in bot API like as '\' in java String that must be use '\' for that how can i to resolve ?

[rubenlagus]

Same as in java, what about escaping it too with '\'? Another option is that you don't use Markdown parse mode.

[azimot]

with the '\' not worked but after i used to set SendMessage.enableHtml(true) worked !

[rubenlagus]

I'm using '\' to escape character in the messages and works correctly. Maybe you are escaping too much or something. enabling html markdown just change the type of markdown.

[azimot]

yes it's worked ! i check in code and see i had a mistake by myself in end of SendMessage operation

[Clevero]

What was exactly your error?

Currently, my problem is that I want to list all my users. With their First, Last and username. It seems that one user has special characters in this name that is interpreted as a markdown thing.

Since I get the same error message, I wonder If I do the same error as you did.

[azimot]

hmm in username phrase ! i dont think about it yet !! but i did catch that error when i want to send message to users because some message must be have some special characters and other dont need.

so in your case you could to create a Pattern Object and check username phrase with Regex if it's have markdown characters then enable markdown and if have html characters enable html i think in this way you could to resolve your problem

[hems]

For me scaping _ with \ isn't working!

[KilluaFein]

I also have problem like @hems, can't escape _ with .

[hems]

@KilluaFein if i'm not mistaken i had to scape with \\ instead! like \\_

[Fotomultman]

Yes, the problem is not solved yet

[Clevero]

@Fotomultman do you escaped properly?

[Fotomultman]

@Clevero I tried but no result :( I'm wondering, could you tell me please how to do it right?

[Clevero]

//should fail
String text = "My amazing text _ is really awesome";
sendMessage.setText(text);

//escape the character
String text = "My amazing text \\_ is really awesome";
sendMessage.setText(text);

Some explanations in a Java tutorial at Oracle

[Fotomultman]

@Clevero As you said before

//escape the character
String text = "My amazing text \\_ is really awesome";
sendMessage.setText(text);

works fine, but when I try to execute

sndMessage(message,message.getSticker().getFileId().replaceAll("_","\\_")) Ther is the same error... :( It it suitable to use replaceAll("_","\\_") construction in this way?

Sorry if it is a silly question :)

P.S. BTW

System.out.println( message.getSticker().getFileId().replaceAll("_","\\_"));

shows result likeCAADAgADNgADGXMNCX5t7t_uKaEZAg without \ before _

But Oracle manual says it would work ...

[Clevero]

Have tested similar code to yours, cannot reproduce your issue:

String text = "My amazing text is _ awesome";

sndMessage(message,text.replaceAll("_","\\_"));

Whereas sndMessage() is a method that creates a SendMessage object and fire its up with execute()

[Fotomultman]

@Clevero

BTW

String mysticker;
String mysticker_txt;
mysticker_txt = message.getSticker().getFileId().replaceAll("_","\\\\_");
sndMessage(message,mysticker_txt);

It works with "\\\\_"mask... dont know why