On 19/04/2014 18:18, Patrick Meyer wrote:
Thanks John. Yes, I was cutting and pasting from Notepad, but I was doing that
for all four lines. I don't understand why it worked for some lines but not
others.
Nevertheless, the cutting and pasting is not my real problem. I created these
four statements to reproduce a problem I encountered with my program. I get the
same lexical error when my program obtains the column names from a delimited
text file. This error only occurs with some (actually, very few) files and I
cannot figure out why. Any ideas why?
What are you using to create these files? Presumably whatever created the files
for you decided you would like some extra line breaks that you didn't ask for
(like all the too-clever-by-half autocorrections that MS Office wants to do if
you give it a chance). You could always try using something like "od -cx" or a
hex editor to see what the file really contains.
Good luck,
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John English
