[Solved] Strange error with field

[alberto_lara]

So I'm creating a small GUI library and I'm running out of ideas on a Lua-level error I'm getting, and this is pretty basic stuff, that's the weirdest thing.



The code is behaving like if I'm setting something like:

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obj.x = 123

and then calling:

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obj['x ']

but I'm never doing such thing, I'm just calling

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obj.x

This is probably a stupid mistake but I'm really stuck... Here's the love file:

gui.love

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[NormalKarl]

Hi there, alberto_lara.

I had this problem when I was developing on mac. Specifically in Xcode. It happens to be something that you can't see but its quite straight forward. It happens to be some hidden characters in the code. Probably doesn't show up because its a non-printable character. If you simple rewrote the line again you will notice there are less characters than the line you already had. If you write the line again and select the line you can see there are 3 more characters on the line you have right now. It happens, you must have just accidentally hit a few keys and inserted some hidden characters.

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self.value = (x - (self.x + self.padding)) * (self.w - self.padding * 2) --3 Extra characters that are hidden
self.value = (x - (self.x + self.padding)) * (self.w - self.padding * 2) --This line works

P.S this may not translate into the forum because it probably culls hidden characters in posts.

[pgimeno]

There is an unbreakable space (U+00A0) in 'self.x '. Just delete it and replace with a normal space.

[alberto_lara]

That did the trick, how could I forget about those characters.. Thanks a lot.