<div dir="ltr">I have just started on my Erlang journey and am struggling with a compiler error that I am hoping someone with experience can spent 5 secs and tell me what i'm doing wrong, as I am not very good at understanding what the compiler is telling me. Thanks!<div>
<br></div><div>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'.</div>
<div><br></div><div><pre>-module(practicum).
-export([placeorder/1]).
placeorder(UserEntry) ->
AllTokens = string:tokens(UserEntry, ",").
case hd(AllTokens) of
"morning" ->
processMorning(lists:nthtail(AllTokens,2));
"night" ->
processEvening(lists:nthtail(AllTokens,2));
_ -> io:fwrite("error\n")
end.
processMorning(Dishes) ->
Dishes.
processEvening(Dishes) ->
Dishes.</pre><div><br></div>-- <br>A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br></div></div>