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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Nothing in the alias has changed, which is what confuses me. All that I can think of is that perhaps one of the versions broke it?

Here's the alias:

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:25 pm

Try reformatting it. Not at a computer, so can't tell you exactly what's wrong, but try that. Also, with the cursor in the value box, try Ctrl+K to determine exactly where the error is.

Charneus

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Ok, I am assuming you create this script from a file or some such.

First is the alias correctly created, as in are all the line there, when viewed in the Package Editor?
Second while viewing the 'vallens' alias in the PE press CTRL-K to compile the script and report an syntax errors. Does it show any? If yes then where?

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

There aren't any syntax errors in the script, it loads just fine. And like I said, it worked before. I haven't changed it a bit and suddenly it doesn't work anymore. I'm not sure how to prove it did work, but it did. I just tried the editor, finds no errors... hrmm

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:46 am

It seems you have stumbled across a very strange parsing bug where some spaces and carriage returned are being stripped. If you manually create the alias, it works perfectly. If you create through an alias or the command line, the code gets stripped.

At first I thought, it was an indentation or carriage return thing but it doesn't seem to be the case.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

So I should create it through the editor?

Beginner Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 24 Location: Germany

looks like blanks are stripped off within the nested statement...

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:15 am

If you can create the alias manually then that's probably the simplest work around for you.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

So I redid the alias... typing in the name manually, and putting in all the same text manually and I still get:

ERROR: Syntax error in Alias: vallens : extra } brace

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:55 pm

No, that's different then what you had previously. It just means you put an extra brace in somewhere. Again, go to Package editor, choose the alias, put focus on the value, then press CTRL+K to find out where the extra brace is at. Or recount your braces and make sure you didn't put an extra one in there.

Charneus