Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/19/07 13:04

Jim Michaels wrote:
> I have a 638 line glob of PHP code & HTML that won't run.
> I get "PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in quiz\\quiz.php
> on line 594".
> I wrote a brace checker that checks perens, square brackets, and curly
> braces for mismatches & opens and it checks out perfect. so I don't
> know what it is about the curly brace error. it's false.
> anybody have a clue as to what the real error might be? the code looks
> pristine to me.
>
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> Jim Michaels
> for email, edit the address
>
> "Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly
> tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand
> it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a
> telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see
> that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the
> brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to
> hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill,
> and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions
> like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital
> computer." - John R Searls.
>

Jim,

Obviously there's a mismatch somewhere :-). Did your brace checker
ignore braces within strings? Or within comments? Either one can throw
it off.

Try a editor with syntax highlighting. On Windows I recommend Crimson;
it has the added advantage of matching up braces for you.


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