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• Lint version: 31.7.3
• AGP: 8.7.3
• Java 21
• Gradle 8.11.1

StringEscapeDetector crashes on the given string under strings.xml:

<string name="foo">Letzte Freischaltung:\\ </string>
<string name="foo_2">Nächste Freischaltung:\\ </string>

due to \\ usage. We've caught this as our translation team improperly re-escaped \.

Reporting as it seems to be an issue within the detector itself:

Unexpected failure during lint analysis (this is a bug in lint or one of the libraries it depends on)
     
  Message: Unexpected failure during lint analysis (this is a bug in lint or one of the libraries it depends on)
     
  Message: Unexpected failure during lint analysis of strings.xml (this is a bug in lint or one of the libraries it depends on)
     
  Message: Index 24 out of bounds for length 24
     
  The crash seems to involve the detector \\\`com.android.tools.lint.checks.StringEscapeDetector\\\`.
  You can try disabling it with something like this:
    android {
      lint {
        disable "StringEscaping"
      }
    }    

Stack trace output from lint:

  StringIndexOutOfBoundsException:Preconditions$1.apply(Preconditions.java:55)
   Preconditions$1.apply(Preconditions.java:52)
   Preconditions$4.apply(Preconditions.java:213)
   Preconditions$4.apply(Preconditions.java:210)
   Preconditions.outOfBounds(Preconditions.java:98)
   Preconditions.outOfBoundsCheckIndex(Preconditions.java:106)
   Preconditions.checkIndex(Preconditions.java:302)
   String.checkIndex(String.java:4832)
   StringLatin1.charAt(StringLatin1.java:46)
   String.charAt(String.java:1555)
   StringEscapeDetector.checkXmlEscapes(StringEscapeDetector.kt:121)
   StringEscapeDetector.findTextNode(StringEscapeDetector.kt:80)
   StringEscapeDetector.visitElement(StringEscapeDetector.kt:62)
   ResourceVisitor.visitElement(ResourceVisitor.kt:170)
   ResourceVisitor.visitElement(ResourceVisitor.kt:215)
   ResourceVisitor.visitFile(ResourceVisitor.kt:120)
   LintDriver$checkResourceFolder$1.run(LintDriver.kt:2262)
   LintClient.runReadAction(LintClient.kt:1781)
   LintDriver$LintClientWrapper.runReadAction(LintDriver.kt:2747)
   LintDriver.checkResourceFolder(LintDriver.kt:2258)
   LintDriver.checkResFolder(LintDriver.kt:2211)
   LintDriver.runFileDetectors(LintDriver.kt:1263)
   LintDriver.checkProject(LintDriver.kt:1070)
   LintDriver.checkProjectRoot(LintDriver.kt:622)
   LintDriver.access$checkProjectRoot(LintDriver.kt:174)
   LintDriver$analyzeOnly$1.invoke(LintDriver.kt:445)
   LintDriver$analyzeOnly$1.invoke(LintDriver.kt:442)
   LintDriver.doAnalyze(LintDriver.kt:501)
   LintDriver.analyzeOnly(LintDriver.kt:442)
   LintCliClient$analyzeOnly$1.invoke(LintCliClient.kt:258)
   LintCliClient$analyzeOnly$1.invoke(LintCliClient.kt:255)
   LintCliClient.run(LintCliClient.kt:312)
   LintCliClient.analyzeOnly(LintCliClient.kt:255)
   Main.run(Main.java:1766)
   Main.run(Main.java:282)
   DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:103)
   Method.invoke(Method.java:580)
   AndroidLintWorkAction.invokeLintMainRunMethod(AndroidLintWorkAction.kt:103)