Re: PARSE ERROR: line number listed is n+1?!?

"Leo G. Divinagracia III" <ldivinag@csuhayward.edu> wrote in message news:3BA11997.F1AF8EAA@csuhayward.edu... > so i write this script. all syntax errors are taken care of. but now i > get a PARSE ERROR wit the line number given as one more than the total > number of lines. > > for example, there's a total of 100 lines in the script. and the error > message is PARSE ERROR: 101 line. > > i check to make sure there are no "phantom" lines after the last one. > nothing. > > anyone else run into this before? The interpreter is surprised that the file has ended, it still expects something - maybe you left out a closing bracket somewhere.