Posted by Leonard Burton on 10/21/91 11:31

HI Matt,

> i
> would get the "unexpected $ on line <two lines past the end of the script>
> error, I've figured out that actually means you are missing a closing } or
> a few
> also tonight, I was working on a script,

It will do this when you are missing a semi colon ";" at the end of a
line. The error is happening when PHP is reporting it for example:

print "going to the flea market?\n"
print "I am going to the flea market<br>\n";

The error is not happening until line two but the problem is that you
are missing a semicolon at the end of line one.

THe problem with misplaced braces "}" is that since they are normally
controlling the flow of the program the error could happen anywhere.

When I see an error that says something like "unexpected T_PRINT" I
look one or two lines above for a missing semicolon.

If a page of code has 90 lines and it says there is an error on 89 or
90 I start to count my {} pairs and see if I am missing one.

That is why I always do silly things like:
function test(){
do something;
do something else;
do more;
do even more;
hurry up;
move it;
get to work;
ok too much undo some work;
}//end function test()

This adds a few keystrokes but believe you me it sure saves a lot of
work when it comes to complex logic. You can then tell if you are
missing something. One of these days I am going to write a script to
analize my code for {} pairs and then it will tell me if one is
missing.

Once you get a good feel for where the error actually happens you will
be able to easily look back and find the problem.

Take care,

--
Leonard Burton, N9URK
leonardburton@gmail.com


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