A simple if-then-else comparison produces errors

Posted by Daniel P on Sat 17 Sep 2011 08:55 PM — 3 posts, 16,436 views.

Daniel P USA Sat 17 Sep 2011 08:55 PM #0

Obviously I'm doing something wrong, though I can't tell what:


if GetVariable("rift_sugar") < GetVariable("rift_comm_max") or GetVariable("grecMax") ~= "ON" then
  ...Code that starts my awesome loop script.
else
  ColourNote("yellow","black","Rift is full and riftmax flag is on.")
end -- if

When I try to load the plugin, I receive the error:
Line 1887: Element name must start with letter or underscore, but starts with " " (Cannot load)

But when I changed the if-then-else to its contrapositive:


if GetVariable("rift_sugar") == GetVariable("rift_comm_max") and GetVariable("grecMax") == "ON" then
  ColourNote("yellow","black","Rift is full and riftmax flag is on.")
else
  ..Awesome loop code
end -- if

Can someone tell me what in the world I'm doing wrong in the first example? It looks fine to me...but I've run into this problem before.

Bast Sat 17 Sep 2011 09:15 PM #1

Change the < to <
You will also want to change > to >

The < is being parsed as the beginning of an xml element.

You will only need to do this if the lua code is not in a CDATA section.

Bast

Daniel P USA Sat 17 Sep 2011 09:22 PM #2

Aha! Thank you so much...that does make sense.