[SOLVED]Problem with basic example on wiki

[Z0MBiE]

I've recently installed Linux and decided to give Love a go on it, thought I'd do a basic message from the wiki:

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function love.draw()
    love.graphics.print("Hello World", 400, 300)
end

but it's giving me the error:

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Error: Syntax error: main.lua:3: '=' expected near ' '

stack traceback:
	[C]: at 0x0047e930
	[C]: in function 'require'
	[string "boot.lua"]:331: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:227>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'

any ideas? It's probably something really simple I've missed knowing my luck

[josefnpat]

Can you post your installed love version?

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love --version

[Z0MBiE]

Can you post your installed love version?

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love --version

Sure can:

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$ love --version
LOVE 0.8.0 (Rubber Piggy)

EDIT: You know what, ignore this. I was being lazy and copy/pasting the code to the console. I'm guessing something slipped in there that shouldn't have. Works perfectly fine after typing it in manually.

Lesson learned. Sorry for wasting your time.

[josefnpat]

Can you provide your exact steps to doing this?

I repeated the process just now, and it worked.

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mkdir test
cd test
touch main.lua
nano main.lua
love .

main.lua contains, and only contains;

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function love.draw()
    love.graphics.print("Hello World", 400, 300)
end

[Z0MBiE]

Edited my previous post, sorry about this.

[bartbes]

Looks like you had some invisible unicode character in there or something.

[miko]

Looks like you had some invisible unicode character in there or something.

Right, most probably "hard space"