Parser problems

junglist · Post by **junglist** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:31 am

(this script is was supposed to help me practice spell skills and then med when oom until i have enough mana to cast again.)

I'm new to coding in general but it seems that this should work with my limited ability.. could it be caused by a bug of some sort? when i run this macro i get a error saying couldn't parse "ana,pct)>10{"
do i have to format my code in a certain way to avoid this or something?

here goes

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|MAIN

Sub Main

	
	/call Cast

	


|CASTING CODE

Sub Cast
	/stand
	:start
    /if  $char(mana,pct)>10{

		/cast 1
		/delay 50
		/goto :start
	}else
	{
	
		/call Med
	}






|MEDDING CODE

Sub Med


	/delay 50
	/sit
	
	:startmed
	
	/delay 10
	/doability 2
	
/if n $char(mana,pct)>95{

		/call Cast

	}else
	{
	/goto :startmed
	}

MacroFiend · Post by **MacroFiend** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:22 pm

One thing I see in your script is that you don't have a space between the end of your conditional and the opening bracket for either of your ifs. The parser is looking for that space to help it determine where things are.

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 /if  $char(mana,pct)>10{

should be

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 /if n $char(mana,pct)>10 {

It could also be a possible bug in the parser for $char(mana,pct) but I didn't see anything wrong when I looked at the code.

There are other bugs in your macro code that could cause some more serious issues. One, you should end a subroutine with a /return command.
Second, you shouldn't really make calls between two subs recursively. In many languages, it could cause a stack overflow. A better way to do this would be to have your Main sub act as the loop with your mana checks and casting.

There is a casterprac macro in the depot that does what you are attempting to do with other features. It might give you some extra insight in to how to structure a macro.

mf