Hi ,
I am trying to generate gcode automatically but seem to have a problem.
Can anyone tell me why I get the error message

near line 27  bad character '*' used

in this code running on axis on emc 2.4.0 simulator
thanks
Alan

(----------------------------------------)
(Date: 27/05/2009 00:00:00)
(Code for 3 Paths)
(3 depth passes)
(Work Rotates around A axis)
(EMC GCode generated automatically)
(----------------------------------------)
O1000 sub     (Path 0)     <-------------------- not generated this yet.
O1000 endsub     (End of Path 0)
 
O2000 sub     (Path 1)
O2000 endsub     (End of Path 1)
 
O3000 sub     (Path 2)
O3000 endsub     (End of Path 2)
 
(Loop to cut each path in turn)
(Uses the following global variables)
 #<_loop_count> = 0     (the current loop count)
 #<_max_count> = 3     (the maximum loop count)
 #<_max_cut> = 2     (the cutter depth increment for rough cuts)
 #<_current_depth> = 0     (the current cutter depth)
 #<_max_depth> = 5     (The maximum depth of paths in the model)
 
O4000 while [#<_loop_count> LT #<_max_count>]  
 #<_current_depth> = [#<_loop_count> + 1] * [#<_max_cut>] 
<-----------------  this is line 26 assume problem here
O4100 if [#<_current_depth> GT #<_max_depth>]
     #<_current_depth> = [#<_max_depth>]
O4100 endif     (End of depth check)
 
O1000 call     (Call Path 0)
O2000 call     (Call Path 1)
O3000 call     (Call Path 2)
 
#<_loop_count>= [#<_loop_count>+1]
O4000 endwhile     (End of cutter depth loop)
 
(Move up to safe height and zero position)
G90
G00 Z-10.0
G00 X0.0 Y0.0 A0.0
M2
(-----End of Program-----)

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