[erlang-questions] Help for a newbie...

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 05/08/2013 03:28 PM, Boris Barvish wrote:
> I am passing in a string such as "morning, 1, 2, 3" as the UserEntry and
> simply want to create a variable which holds a list of the tokens.  I am
> getting a message from the compiler saying "syntax error before: 'case'.
>
> -module(practicum).
>
> -export([placeorder/1]).
>
> placeorder(UserEntry) ->
>    AllTokens = string:tokens(UserEntry, ",").

You want a , at the end of the line there, not a . Expressions are 
separated with commas.

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