Frustrated! Problem with logical operator failing in EUO

[NObama]

Please look at the attached screenshot and tell me...WHY AM I ON THIS LINE?!

If %bottomrow = true, I should never get here!

ARGH!!!!!!!!!

[TrailMyx]

Check your braces.  You may have a brace imbalance.  Try running the syntax checker from SUO.

[NObama]

Yep, that was it.  It's proving much harder to keep track of all my branch and sequels than I thought, even for a 3x3 puzzle.

[TrailMyx]

Don't worry, I've fallen in that particular hole many times.  Part of the reason that inspired me to do the SUO thing.

[12TimesOver]

Don't worry, I've fallen in that particular hole many times.  Part of the reason that inspired me to do the SUO thing.

I would venture to bet that this is probably the number one syntactical stumper for newb's and vet's alike - probably in just about any applicable language really. Thus why a decent parser is so bitchin'

Imagine trying to figure that out by hand with tens of thousands of lines of code? I don't care if you're the inventor of C++, there ain't no way you're dealing with that manually and still raising children and having sex from time to time. Nope, it ain't happening.

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[NObama]

In case anyone cares, I've decided to scrap my current brute force logic approach to this process, and go with a rules-based one instead.  It will take a really long time for me to code it, though, so in the meantime I've been using a version of the army to keep my main character healed.

I can do individual puzzles faster that I can code a solution, but it makes me sad that a prime scripting opportunity is being lost...perhaps if someone else wants to take it on, I can provide my work thus far.

[manwinc]

yeah, when you have a bracket imbalance, the if statment just reads the first open bracket.

set %Boobies So_So
if %Boobies = magnificent
{
Display WOOT


Because there is no CLosing bracket, the if statment will only perform the Open Bracket if its true, so obviously it just performs everything else

[TrailMyx]

I can relate to your excellent code example. 

[NObama]

I read "boobies" and immediately went off to find some.

Damn.  Did it again.