Re: Strange Syntax problem
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- Subject: [mg64256] Re: [mg64231] Strange Syntax problem
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 03:53:48 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Kees, If Mathematica says you have a missing bracket you almost certainly do. However, it might not always be the type of bracket they indicate. You can sometimes trace this down by placing the cursor in an expression and then using Ctrl-'.' Keep pressing '.' and Mathematica will select ever larger subexpressions. This will usually show when an expression is not being terminated properly because of a missing bracket. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: KvS [mailto:keesvanschaik at gmail.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net 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