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EngineerSmith wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:35 pm There's an end missing on Ln375

yal2du wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:32 pm debugging is a process of elimination; syntax errors are the easiest because the compiler actually finds the error for you. in this case, the function love.update is missing a closing 'end' statement. the reason you can't figure out what is wrong is because love.update is ~2k lines of if then clauses(!) the first one (the one beginning with " if love.keyboard.isDown("return") " is the size of the whole function. this is most easily seen using an editor that supports folding nested statements. break the function down into smaller parts to isolate the issue. maybe make a different function for each scene, and use a state machine to move through them.

e.g.

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scenes = {}
currentscene = 1

local function scene1(...)
  -- do whatever
end

scenes.scene1  = scene1
-- add rest of scene functions to table of scenes

function love.update(dt)
	scenes['scene'..tostring(currentscene)]()   -- update the current scene
end

EngineerSmith wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:35 pm That's a big update loop. You should check out ways to split your code into multiple files so you don't end up with a blob file like this and it's much more manageable/maintainable.

There's an end missing on Ln375

pgimeno wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 5:48 pm I've written a program to easily detect these kinds of problems:

https://codeberg.org/pgimeno/Gists/src/ ... nt-checker

When applied to this file it says this:

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$ lua indentchecker.lua big.lua 
**** big.lua
Warning at line 376: Misindented elseif (if)
Warning at line 463: Misindented elseif (if)
Warning at line 480: Misindented end (if)
Warning at line 2199: Misindented end (if)
Warning at line 2221: Unexpected EOF looking for block terminator

All errors past the first are a consequence of that one, so fixing the first one makes it pass.