question: public static NumericRange parse ( String textToParse ) throws ServiceResultException { if ( textToParse == null || textToParse . length ( ) == 0 ) { return NumericRange . getEmpty ( ) ; } NumericRange range = new NumericRange ( ) ; String [ ] dims = textToParse . split ( "," ) ; range . setDimensions ( dims . length ) ; for ( int d = 0 ; d < dims . length ; d ++ ) try { String dimStr = dims [ d ] ; String [ ] indexes = dimStr . split ( ":" ) ; if ( indexes . length > 1 ) { range . setBegin ( d , Integer . parseInt ( indexes [ 0 ] ) ) ; range . setEnd ( d , Integer . parseInt ( indexes [ 1 ] ) ) ; if ( range . getBegin ( d ) == range . getEnd ( d ) ) throw new IllegalArgumentException ( "Begin = End" ) ; } else { range . setBegin ( d , Integer . parseInt ( indexes [ 0 ] ) ) ; } } catch ( Exception e ) { throw new ServiceResultException ( StatusCodes . Bad_IndexRangeInvalid , e , "Cannot parse numeric range: " + textToParse + "." ) ; } return range ; }
target:  Parses a string representing a numeric range.