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Strange Syntax problem

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• Subject: [mg64231] Strange Syntax problem
• From: "KvS" <keesvanschaik at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 03:36:00 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi all,

I'm new here, have some experience with Mathematica, currently running
version 5.1 under Windows XP Prof. I've written a reasonably large
piece of code (about 50 lines) in a single cell. It contains some
comments troughout and a few loops. If I run this piece of code the way
it was saved it all works fine.

But if I now simply try to add a line somewhere in the code, a simple
Print-statement e.g., I suddenly get the error

Syntax::bktmcp : Expression "(Log[s])^m" has no closing ")".

This expression (Log[s])^m is in the last part of the code and the line
I added is close to the beginning so they're relatively far apart. It
doesn't make any sense because even if I comment out the added line by
adding "(*" and "*)" around them (so that I have effectively only added
comment to the original code) the same error keeps coming up.

If I then reopen the original saved file and add a Print-statement
close to the end of the code it does run...

How could this have happened, is anybode familiar with this behaviour?
I wouldn't mind rewriting the code if the notebook somehow became
corrupt only if I knew for sure it wouldn't happen again...

Thanks in advance!

- Kees