Weird error message...
[1/11] from: arolls:idatam:au at: 8-Nov-2001 12:11
The answer is:
You shouldn't be trying to do that because
it doesn't do what you want, anyway :)
I've occasionally noticed weird stuff like that
when missing quotes etc. in the console.
It -is- the front line, however.
:)Anton
[2/11] from: joel:neely:fedex at: 7-Nov-2001 0:01
The following occurred in a console session, after I hit the
Enter key instead of the adjacent doublequote key. Notice
the bizarre last line...
>> replace/all x "^/^/" "^/
** Syntax Error: Missing " at replace/all x "^/^/" "^/
** Near: 0.1 * to-int (n + 1000 + 0.5)
-jn-
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[3/11] from: hallvard:ystad:helpinhand at: 7-Nov-2001 13:17
And look what I got when I copied and pasted your error:
>> replace/all x "^/^/" "^/
** Syntax Error: Missing " at replace/all x "^/^/" "^/
** Near: type? tag-stuff
Why rebol came up with the "type? tag-stuff" thing, beats me... But this
clearly illustrates in what order things are done. In my console session,
'x had no value:
>> value? 'x
== false
.. but that's an error for a later stage...
~H
Joel Neely skrev (Wednesday 07.11.2001, kl. 07.01):
[4/11] from: media:quazart at: 7-Nov-2001 7:50
what is a rounding expression doing there!?!?
-MAxim
[5/11] from: koopmans:itr:ing:nl at: 7-Nov-2001 13:44
What was the value of x?
Tried it with x as copy {} but alas,....
--Maarten
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 07:01, you wrote:
[6/11] from: hallvard:ystad:helpinhand at: 7-Nov-2001 13:58
I think I got it. Take a look at this:
>> ^/
** Syntax Error: Invalid path -- ^/
** Near: (line 1) ^/
>> "^/
** Syntax Error: Missing " at "^/
** Near: print find krak str_HTML
In the first example, ^/ creates an error (of course). In the second
example, rebol must be looking back in history to find a match for the
double quote, hence the rounding expression in Joels console session (did
you do some rounding just before, Joel?) and the tag-stuff thing in mine (I
sure did some tag-stuff!).
Or am I completely in the wrong stratosphere here?
~H
Media skrev (Wednesday 07.11.2001, kl. 13.50):
[7/11] from: joel:neely:fedex at: 7-Nov-2001 1:06
Hi, Maarten,
It was a string containing only a long run of newlines.
I strongly suspect that there's some internal buffer glitch (an
buffer that's not getting cleaned out, a dangling pointer, or
some other such thing...) in console input handling or error
construction from invalid console input.
Just a guess...
-jn-
Maarten Koopmans wrote:
> What was the value of x?
> Tried it with x as copy {} but alas,....
<<quoted lines omitted: 4>>
> > ** Near: 0.1 * to-int (n + 1000 + 0.5)
> >
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[8/11] from: joel:neely:fedex at: 7-Nov-2001 8:44
Hi, Hallvard,
Hallvard Ystad wrote:
> I think I got it. Take a look at this:
> >> ^/
<<quoted lines omitted: 9>>
> just before, Joel?) and the tag-stuff thing in mine (I sure
> did some tag-stuff!).
I had done some experimenting with rounding much earlier,
but it had been a while. Repeating the experiment on my box
at work...
>> "^/
** Syntax Error: Missing " at "^/
** Where: halt-view
** Near: ff
There was no occurrence of FF in my console transcript (which
went back to the point at which REBOL was started. However,
there *was* an occurrence of FF in a script file which I had
DOne from the console.
This seems to support the conjecture about leftovers or other
internal pointer weirdness...
-jn-
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[9/11] from: mattsmac:h:otmail at: 27-Oct-2003 14:53
Weird Error
The script I have going logs onto a server using Rugby. As an error check,
if the client cannot connect to the server, I prompt the user to enter a new
server IP address in a request/text box. Then I take this new IP address
(in string form) and put it into the string "mainserver: context
get-rugby-service tcp://" serverip ":8000" where serverip is the ip-string
that was just obtained. Then I do that string. Basically, all this seems
to work fine, but after that, I have an object I made to hold some message
fields such as sender, date, and subject, all of which are read from an ODBC
database. When I try to change the "." to ":" in the date field using
tempmsg: make msg_info
[
msgid: msg/1
from: msg/2
fromid: msg/3
subject: msg/4
date: copy/part msg/5 (length? msg/5) - 5
]
replace/all tempmsg/date "." ":"
i get the error code
** Script Error: Cannot use path on logic! value
** Where: replace
** Near: target: change/part target :replace len
This only happens when I change that IP address. If the default IP address
works, then nothing goes wrong. And the tempmsg object gets populated
properly also. So it's not like I'm not getting a database connection or
anything easy like that. Anyone have any ideas?
Matt
[10/11] from: mattsmac::hotmail::com at: 27-Oct-2003 16:03
Sorry about that guys, it was just some weirdness in another part of my
code.
[11/11] from: greggirwin:mindspring at: 27-Oct-2003 13:56
Hi Matt,
MM> replace/all tempmsg/date "." ":"
MM> i get the error code
MM> ** Script Error: Cannot use path on logic! value
MM> ** Where: replace
MM> ** Near: target: change/part target :replace len
Looks like you've set CHANGE to a logic value somewhere in your code
before this happens. Is that possible?
-- Gregg
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