Appropriate exception to throw when a parsing error occurs?

Question

When parsing a custom (text) file format in Java, what is the appropriate exception to throw when a syntax error is encountered? I'm looking for something analogous to .NET's FormatException.

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Edit: The part about parsing might be slightly misleading. What I'm doing is not so much parsing as reading a line from a file, passing it to a method that extracts colon-separated fields from it, hence why I thought FormatException would be appropriate.

Answer 1

java.text.ParseException seems the most appropriate. If you want a runtime exception and not a checked one, IllegalArgumentException is probably the most appropriate.