Reading Dan's Book

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 1:36 AM +0000 2/21/2004, Douglas Mackay wrote:
>put "1|Task A|A|Pending|8/31/03|8/31/03|Note for Task A" into URL
>
>"file:MyToDo.txt" but the message box come up with a Script compile error:
>Error description: Expression: bad factor, What does this mean  ? 
>what am I doing wrong ? when I open thos file with notepad the file 
>is empty
>
>anyone explain  to me please what a "bad factor" is

It means there's something wrong with the syntax when Revolution 
tries to parse the statement. (For example, if you try to divide a 
number by a letter.)

This statement works fine for me in the message box. Are you sure 
you're putting the whole thing on one line? (There shouldn't be a 
line break after the word "URL", just in case.)

Also, double-check the quotes. If "1|Task 
A|A|Pending|8/31/03|8/31/03|Note for Task A" isn't surrounded by 
double quotes, you will get a "bad factor" error because Revolution 
will think the slashes are operators and try to do division.
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