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[Spongy141]

Well as the title says, I got a Error: bios:338: [string "DynationOS"]:19: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 17)
the weird thing is, is it is closed... can someone help me out by fixing it? Don't worry, I didn't make you guys have to hunt for the section I need help in, the full program is not even close to being finished and already 150 lines.

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  term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
  print("Account name: ")
  term.setTextColor(colors.white)
  local user = 
  { 
    file = fs.open("Account","r")  
    user = file:readLine()
  }  
  local name = read()
  if name == (user) then
    file.close()
    term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
print("Password: ")
local pass = 
{ 
 file = fs.open("Account","r")  
 pass = file:readLine()  
}
term.setTextColor(colors.white)
local passw = read()
elseif passw == (pass) then
 file.close()
 User()
  else
    file.close()
    term.setTextColor(colors.red)
print("Sorry account does not exist")
sleep(1.5)
print("Redirecting you to setup")
setup()
  end

[theoriginalbit]

each entry in a table must be separated by a comma. you have not done this. so fix that and you should be good.

EDIT: Well actually idk what you're doing there

is it meant to be this

local handle = fs.open("Account","r")
local user = handle.readLine()

or is it meant to be this

local user = {}
user["file"] = fs.open("Account","r")
user["user"] = user.file.readLine()

[immibis]

It's meant to be this:

local user = 
  { 
    file = fs.open("Account","r"),
    user = file:readLine()
  }  

Note the comma.

[Spongy141]

TheOriginalBIT, on 10 March 2013 - 09:39 PM, said:

each entry in a table must be separated by a comma. you have not done this. so fix that and you should be good.

EDIT: Well actually idk what you're doing there

is it meant to be this

local handle = fs.open("Account","r")
local user = handle.readLine()

or is it meant to be this

local user = {}
user["file"] = fs.open("Account","r")
user["user"] = user.file.readLine()

Lol well I didn't want to post the ENTIRE program code, but what that function does it allows you to login... so I was trying to call the users information from one file to the main program.
EDIT: I put the commas in, it didn't give me a error, but it didn't work correctly... I probably need to fix the account file..

[theoriginalbit]

immibis, on 10 March 2013 - 09:49 PM, said:

It's meant to be this:

local user =
  {
	file = fs.open("Account","r"),
	user = file:readLine()
  }  

Note the comma.

Could that not cause problems considering you are trying to reference a table element while constructing the second element?

[immibis]

TheOriginalBIT, on 10 March 2013 - 09:50 PM, said:

immibis, on 10 March 2013 - 09:49 PM, said:

It's meant to be this:

local user =
  {
	file = fs.open("Account","r"),
	user = file:readLine()
  }  

Note the comma.

Could that not cause problems considering you are trying to reference a table element while constructing the second element?

Oh - yeah, that won't work.
It's also file.readLine not file:readLine
io uses :, fs uses .

And in your code, user["file"] and user["user"] can be replaced by user.file and user.user

[theoriginalbit]

immibis, on 10 March 2013 - 09:52 PM, said:

And in your code, user["file"] and user["user"] can be replaced by user.file and user.user

I've found it doesn't always work for me, but either way, using . notation is just syntactical sugar, its not functionally any different.

[Spongy141]

If one of you thinks they can help way more by seeing the entire code PM me, since it still doesn't work as I want it too.