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sgsgwv$6263

Hi,

In Lua, everything is flexible and all but the infamous "unexpected symbol near" errors are sometimes not intuitive and logical. This morning, in one my scripts I got this error, after staring at the code for half an hour I was sure that there was no such unexpected symbol or any other kind of error. even after deleting the line which gave the error, I got the same error in some other line which I have not touched since ages.

What I did was: I cut pasted the code in my notepad and had to repaste the code function by function(the complete code had 40-45 functions) in the script. After each function I used to press ok to check if it's valid up til here. I had hoped that I will find the error eventually in some other function. But it never happened. I finished copying all functions one by one and finally pressed ok and it got saved without any error. This got me really frustrated. Why did I waste my time? Has this happened to any of you gurus here? How did you handle it? How can I debug the lua code in such cases? Is the line number given in the error generated by math.random(LOL) ?

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:52 am Post subject:

it's difficult. You'll have to look for unexpected symbols. but the line number does tell you where the issue is.

e.g.:

sgsgwv$6263 · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 6:07 am Post subject:

What should be the best practice to always avoid this? Should I avoid using the script editor and use any other editor like vscode Or notepad at all times?

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 6:16 am Post subject:

that depends on how the character got there

Most often issues like this happen because people edit their script using notepad or other non-xml editors instead of the editor, and then mess up the XML formatting resulting in a character code instead of normal code (e.g in xml you can't do < , you have to use < )

but if you have a keyboard that makes it easy to accidentally insert special unsupported characters, then maybe use a different editor yes

AylinCE · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:28 am Post subject:

Here is another possibility of error.

Sometimes, in code that is copied and pasted (especially if it is the whole code or a single line from an application that is taken from the internet or not supported.), carriage return or line break spaces, or line spaces, are invisible and as a character; triggers unknown error.

Just those spaces; Make sure you leave it yourself.