Compiling Error (unexpected ')' appears in code).

[David McFarlane]

Colton,

"... all I did was use the drag/drop tools and select a file path."

Ah, the old file path separator problem.  No way you would have 
figured that out from the error message, nor by any amount of 
Googling.  You can find the issue discussed at the following threads:

http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic2336-12-1.aspx ,
http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1689-12-1.aspx ,
http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1718-5-1.aspx
http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/d2760287fabeb88a

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 9/12/2011 01:33 PM Monday, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Sorry if this is an oft-encountered problem, due to the lack of an
>error number, and the amount of symbols in the error popup, googling
>for the problem itself didn't go over so well.
>
>I'm not particularly e-prime/e-basic savvy, so all I'm doing has been
>through the GUI (no inline code), and so I'm confused how a code error
>occurred, and I'm also optimistic that the solution is rather simple.
>
>This is the error box I receive when trying to compile the script:
>
>"Error found during Compile
>
>The following error was found while attempting to compile the E-Basic
>Script:
>
>Encountered: ')'
>Expecting: end of line
>
>Line: 477
>Column: 23"
>
>Now, I found the line they're talking about, and there does seem to be
>a close parenthesis there, but I don't know why an error like that
>would occur when all I did was use the drag/drop tools and select a
>file path.
>
>Specifically, the error occurs within a List that has a procedure
>setup to call 6 images randomly from a folder containing 12 images.
>Here are some screenshots of the offending code, as well as the way I
>set up the experiment where the error seems to occur:
>
>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/cjp87/error1.jpg
>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/cjp87/error2.jpg
>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/cjp87/error3.jpg
>
>My intention is to have this experiment up and running no later than
>tomorrow, so any help is much appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Colton

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