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Posted: **Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:41 pm**

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

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

Posted: **Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:44 pm**

Can you post your installed love version?

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love --version

Posted: **Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:47 pm**

josefnpat wrote: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.

Posted: **Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:51 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:52 pm**

Edited my previous post, sorry about this.

Posted: **Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:21 am**

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

Posted: **Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:33 am**

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

Right, most probably "hard space"

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