Syntax Error NIGHTMARE

Hello! Ok this is driving me nuts. I know I'm tired but ... ugh. Below is a function I have in my script which I wrote using LSLEditor.

When imported in world I am getting syntax error on the line "else if (command == "omega" { updateProperty (21, value); }" but it looks fine to me. The function updateProperty takes an integer and then string.

I don't know how well this will work because of the formatting here so here goes....

parseCommand (string command, string value) {
	if (command== "channel") {
		gChannel = (integer)value;
		llWhisper (0, "The listening channel has been changed to " + (string)gChannel);
		if (gEnableVoiceCommands) {
			llListenRemove(gListener);
			llListen (gChannel, "", llGetOwner(), "");
		}
	}
	else if (command == "colorint")	   { gEffect_ColorInterpolation = (integer)value; updateEffects(); }
	else if (command == "glow")		   { gEffect_Glow = (integer)value; updateEffects(); }
	else if (command == "sizeint")		{ gEffect_SizeInterpolation = (integer)value; updateEffects(); }
	else if (command == "followveloc")	{ gEffect_FollowVelocity = (integer)value; updateEffects(); }
	else if (command == "wind")		   { gEffect_Wind = (integer)value; updateEffects(); }
	else if (command == "bounce")		 { gEffect_Bounce = (integer)value; updateEffects();}
	else if (command == "followsrc")	  { gEffect_FollowSource = (integer)value; updateEffects(); }
	else if (command == "followtarget")   { gEffect_FollowTarget = (integer)value; updateEffects(); }
	else if (command == "colorstart")	 { updateProperty (1, value);  }
	else if (command == "colorend")	   { updateProperty (3, value);  }
	else if (command == "alphastart")	 { updateProperty (2, value);  }
	else if (command == "alphaend")	   { updateProperty (4, value);  }
	else if (command == "sizestart")	  { updateProperty (5, value);  }
	else if (command == "sizeend")		{ updateProperty (6, value);  }
	else if (command == "texture")		{ updateProperty (12, value); }
	else if (command == "partlife")	   { updateProperty (7, value);  }
	else if (command == "syslife")		{ updateProperty (19, value); }
	else if (command == "rate")		   { updateProperty (13, value); }
	else if (command == "parts")		  { updateProperty (15, value); }
	else if (command == "radius")		 { updateProperty (16, value); }
	else if (command == "anglebegin")	 { updateProperty (22, value); }
	else if (command == "angleend")	   { updateProperty (23, value); }
	else if (command == "omega")		  { updateProperty (21, value); }
	else if (command == "speedmin")	   { updateProperty (17, value); }
	else if (command == "speedmax")	   { updateProperty (18, value); }
	else if (command == "acceleration")   { updateProperty (8, value);  }
	else if (command == "target")		 { updateProperty (20, value); }
	else if (command == "pattern")		{ updateProperty (9, value);  }
}

If anyone can tell me why i'm getting these errors it would be greatly appreciated!

LSL only allows a limited number of IF ELSE statements, more than around 10-13 and that's what happens. Try breaking it into fewer IF ELSE.

SL is generally happier if you don't cascade if..else's. Do the same thing with more fully nested clauses and it will be ok.

I don't see any syntax errors.
Please run some tests to see if there is a restriction on the number of if/else blocks you can have in a single control structure.
This wiki page doesn't say anything about it, so, if you discover that there is one, then please post about it in the wiki.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/If

Better still, save yourself some work and learn some LSL in the process by not re-inventing the wheel. See:

/15/36/124969/1.html

for the cannonical particle script.

The old, good wiki does describe the limit*:whereas the new, improved, dreadfully incomplete LSL Wiki Portal doesn't.

Don't even ask me why they bothered to make a new, improved, dreadfully incomplete LSL Wiki Portal, as you probably wouldn't believe it.

*http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=ifelse

That would make sence because I couldn't see anything physically wrong with the script. Thank you, I am going to give that a try and see what happens.

Yes but that's just a particle template - that's not what I'm trying to achieve here.

For more information than you ever wanted to know on why this happens, see http://w-hat.com/stackdepth

You could put all of the variables in a list such as ["colorint", "glow", "sizeint"] then you could find the position. In this example "colorint" would return an integer of "0".

Change your subroutine to use the integers and make it a binary else if test, which is much faster and many more tests are allowed. Don't know the limit but way more then I have ever needed.

Or you could just send an integer instead and skip the list test and go right to the else if's. Just depends on what would be more readable for you.

Hey Darien! Go on vacation for a week so I can catch up and race you to a 1,000!!!!!
Of course the winner would still be in 2nd place behind Nika.

here's a thought...

try deleting the space between "updateProperty" and "1, value);"

wow necromancy on a first post =)

just so you know, LSL ignores whitespace so the space does nothing... you could drop it 4 lines if you wanted

welcome to the forums Rage, it might help to keep to the first page or two when replying to threads, unless you're trying to get more info on a previous thread topic... helps with clutter