[LANG-1385] NumberUtils.createNumber() throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException instead of NumberFormatException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.7
• Fix Version/s: 3.8
• Component/s: lang.math.*
• Assignee: Gary D. Gregory
• Reporter: Rohan Padhye
• Created: 10/Mar/18 23:47
• Updated: 11/Mar/18 01:23
• Resolved: 11/Mar/18 01:17

Description

Test case:

NumberUtils.createNumber("L")

Expected: NumberFormatException

Got:

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0
at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658)
 at org.apache.commons.lang3.math.NumberUtils.createNumber(NumberUtils.java:528)