[harlowe] "Badly written expression" Error message not helping.

Rafe · August 2016

Can you spot the mistake, please? It's supposed to get me one random name off the array, yet I get an "unexpected token illegal" error.

{(set: $highfnames to (array: “Adelaide“, “Adèle“, “Adeline“, “Agathe“, “Agnès“, “Aïcha“, “Albane“, “Alex“))

(set: $lovename to $highfnames)

}

Also, can I include special characters like é, è. or ï in the names, or should I remove them?

TheMadExile · August 2016

You may use single quotes or double quotes when quoting. You're probably using typographic/curly quotes, which aren't syntactically valid. You may use them in you normal text, just not in code.

Try:

{
(set: $highfnames to (array: "Adelaide", "Adèle", "Adeline", "Agathe", "Agnès", "Aïcha", "Albane", "Alex"))
(set: $lovename to $highfnames)
}

Accented characters should be fine. If you're copy-pasting from another application, however, you might want to ensure that it's set to the utf-8 encoding as I'm unsure if Twine 2 will convert from your local code page properly upon paste—it probably will, but I haven't tested that.

Rafe · August 2016

The expression was correct, or so it seems. But I think it can't grab just a single random name from the array, so I had to try a different method.

TheMadExile · August 2016

No. The expression was not correct. Typographic quotes are not legal syntax—this is not in question.

Beyond that, I only corrected the quoting error. A full example, including a random selection from the array by spreading it into the (either:) macro, would be:

{
(set: $highfnames to (array: "Adelaide", "Adèle", "Adeline", "Agathe", "Agnès", "Aïcha", "Albane", "Alex"))
(set: $lovename to (either: ...$highfnames))
}Your love is $lovename.

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