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#1 groovicus

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 01:07 PM

How often do you spend getting an error in something like this:

				try
		{
			$query = "SELECT Blah..blah..blah'";
					  
			return pdo_select($query);
		{
		catch (PDOException $e)
		{
			return writeError($e);
		}

Before you realize it is supposed to be this?

				try
		{
			$query = "SELECT Blah..blah..blah'";
					  
			return pdo_select($query);
		}
		catch (PDOException $e)
		{
			return writeError($e);
		}

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 01:30 PM

groovicus,

I don't see any difference between them....

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#3 groovicus

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 01:37 PM

After you look at it as long as I did, you will....... I was even nice enough to remove the nasty query for you.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 03:06 PM

Lol -- should have pulled out Beyond Compare the first time.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 03:20 PM

Isn't the second bracket a different/wrong way around?

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#6 groovicus

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 03:33 PM

Quote

Isn't the second bracket a different/wrong way around?

Yes it is.

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Posted 05 October 2010 - 03:49 PM

Two questions. One, what was the query, and two, what language is that? It looks like C#, but I can't tell.

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Posted 05 October 2010 - 04:13 PM

Chromebuster, it's PHP. You can tell because of the $s in front of all the variable names.

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Posted 05 October 2010 - 05:52 PM

The query contained proprietary information and was thus sanitized. I want to keep my job. :thumbsup:

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Posted 07 October 2010 - 04:27 PM

Oopsies! My bad! I can't believe I missed the language thing though! Well, maybe I can since my current screen reader doesn't show me those little details. JAWS does, but not System Access which is the one I'm using till I get my own computer back from the Gordon support folks since they're going to reimage my system from a recent hard drive failure.

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Posted 07 October 2010 - 05:50 PM

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

I spent an hour once trying to find an error like that. We'll get time travel before we get intuitive compilers.

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Posted 08 October 2010 - 07:00 PM

Joombaga, on Oct 7 2010, 03:50 PM, said:

we'll get time travel before we get intuitive compilers.

Honestly, how hard would it be for a compiler or interpreter to check for mismatched brackets? :thumbsup:

Groovicus, I find that an editor that highlights bracket/parenthesis pairs is a great help in catching these things earlier:
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Or:

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Posted 08 October 2010 - 07:22 PM

Andrew you forgot to tell which editors you have shown us.

I can recognize the bottom one is Notepad++ which also highlights matching brackets :thumbsup:

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#14 groovicus

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Posted 09 October 2010 - 11:27 AM

Andrew, I use Notepad++ which does do highlighting. However bracket matching breaks down when there is html, javascript, and php all interspersed on the same page. There is no way a compiler can tell what goes where.

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