| From: | Andreas Mixich |
| Date: | 20 Aug 2000 at 18:03:43 |
| Subject: | Re: Unbalanced parentheses (not!) |
Hello Donald
On 20-Aug-00, you wrote:
DD>> CALL 'rexx:Converter/x-lharc.decode'
DD>> ("DOWNLOAD:Hunt.lha","ENTPACK:Converter/")
DD>> Convert.rexx : Error at line 213: INTERPRET decoder
DD>> Error: 42 Unbalanced parentheses
DD>
DD>> Why ? I have exactly two parentheses.
DD>
DD> Hello, Andreas:
DD>
DD> You asked why: the ARexx error reporting scheme is easily confused when
DD> there are certain error types. Using unbalanced quotes may be one way to
DD> confuse it, but the script usually refuses to run, at my end, making it
DD> difficult to find the incorrect line, even with a TRACE.
DD>
DD> Is the line line wrapped by the mail system or was it written this way?
DD> There is no comma.
It is written on one line in the script. The mailer wrapped it.
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