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Jeanne A. E. DeVoto jeanne at runrev.com
Fri Jan 18 21:02:01 EST 2002


At 5:11 AM -0800 1/18/2002, Mike McManus wrote:
>Why does the line
>
>replaceText((line n of textToParse),"red","blue")
>
>always generate the error:  Expression: missing ')' before factor.

It's because it's not a complete Transcript statement. Every
valid statement starts with a command, and replaceText isn't
a command - it's a function.

You can fix this by simply changing it to something like

  put replaceText ((line n of textToParse),"red","blue") into line n of textToParse

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