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RickiG

Found too many { characters without a..
Feb 18^th, 2009, 7:46pm

Error: "Found too many { characters without a } to match it"

Hi

No I have not gone mental, I can not get rid of this error message.
I have two classes, In and Out. Deleting the Out, which displays the error, just results in the error message turning up in In and visa versa.

Even when deleting both classes so my sketch is just a setup() method results in the error.

class Out
{
public void print(String s)
{
System.out.print(s);
}

public void println(String s)
{
System.out.println(s);
}
}

Has it to do with me upgrading to 1.01 or have I gone completely blind to something obvious?

Hope someone can help, Thanks :)

Regards Ricki

cloister Full Member Offline Posts: 138	Re: Found too many { characters without a.. Reply #1 - Feb 18^th, 2009, 8:48pm Can you post a full example? That is, strip the file down to the absolute MINIMUM amount of code that still yields the error, and post that? It's pretty hard to help seeing only a tiny portion of code for something like that.

Cedric

Re: Found too many { characters without a..
Reply #2 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 9:06am

I tried to bugfix a problem like this too...

there is one thing to think off while searching for the missing parenthesis or the one that should be there...

there is this feature that highlights the other corresponding parenthesis when clicking next to one. But it doesnt disregard the ones you commented out... so if there is somwhere a line of code that you commented out but ends with an //{ its all messed up... just to have that in mind while searching for the error...

but like he said, just post it and we can take a look.

twitter.com/CedricKiefer

RickiG

Re: Found too many { characters without a..
Reply #3 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 5:45pm

Hi

Sorry Im so slow to get back, for some reason I need to do work at the place I sit around all day drinking coffee???
Thank you for your suggestions:)

I actually ended up rewriting my main sketch and 3 classes from scratch, and then the error disappeared.
(It actually disappeared half way through the 2nd class) .

As the class I was rewriting, when it suddenly worked, wasn't the original class where the error appeared I got suspicious and did a little test.
It turns out that I can get a a class/tab with a missing parentheses to display an error in another class tab that does not even use or instantiates the problem class?

I have never encountered this before, I read the release notes and bug reports for 1.0 in my attempt to find a reason and I saw that the compiler error messages have been given a workthrough.. could this be a new feature;)

Or have I just been lucky and never encountered this before in my 100+ sketches in processing?
Anyone else tried this?

Regards Ricki

cloister Full Member Offline Posts: 138	Re: Found too many { characters without a.. Reply #4 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 6:18pm Wow. If it's some weird parser bug that affects things in a whole different code window, then you should definitely figure out how to reliably reproduce the error and submit a bug report. That's not a good bug to have, if that's what it really is.

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