05 February 2014, 20:24 | #1 |
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Very Basic Scripting. Confused.
Hi,
I've been lurking here for a while, it's a great board. So I have this text editor which ignores a given filename as parameter if the file does not yet exist. So I wrote this simple wrapper: Code:
.key file .bra { .ket } if "{file}" eq "" skip blank endif if not exists {file} echo >{file}.control "" ; create empty file for later comparison echo >{file} "" ; create dummy file for editor to open endif genam3 {file} skip check lab blank genam3 lab check if exists {file}.control cmp {file} {file}.control ; compare with empty file if not warn ; if it's the same, delete again (nothing was edited) delete {file} endif delete {file}.control ; otherwise only delete control file endif TIA. |
05 February 2014, 22:05 | #2 |
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It works correctly for me. Which version of AmigaDOS do you use?
Can you attach the original file? I used cut & paste from there, but maybe the original file contains some strange character which was removed by the web browser. Note that your script will fail badly if the file name contains space characters. |
05 February 2014, 22:17 | #3 |
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I checked for strange characters but will provide the file anyway. I am on AmigaOS 1.3 (kickstart 34.5) This still gives the same error to me (endif missing).
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The files do NOT contain identical datas. ENDIF missing if failed returncode 20 |
05 February 2014, 23:12 | #4 |
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Found the problem:
Apparently IF/ELSE/ENDIF statements must not be indented. |
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No, this is not true. Indention is allowed. The problem is that the last line did not end with a newline character. If you had added an empty line to the end of the file it would have worked. |
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06 February 2014, 11:13 | #6 |
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Oh?
Interesting. I did not realize that. I removed all indenting on a hunch, must have fixed that issue while doing so. |
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