<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=gb2312"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Properly format the code at first, then things seems clear.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> {inets,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> [</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> {services,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> [</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(175, 55, 130); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> {httpd, [{proplist_file, </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"/var/tmp/server_root/conf/8888_props.conf"</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">}]},</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(175, 55, 130); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> {httpd, [{proplist_file, </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"/var/tmp/server_root/conf/8080_props.conf"</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">}]}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> ]}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> ]}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">].</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Cheers,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Yao</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">在 2020年3月8日，12:21，Peter J Etheridge <<a href="mailto:petergi@iinet.net.au" class="">petergi@iinet.net.au</a>> 写道：</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class=""><div class="">dear erlangers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">i have pasted and copied this;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre class="">[{inets, [{services, [{httpd, [{proplist_file,
<span class="hljs-string">"/var/tmp/server_root/conf/8888_props.conf"</span>}]},
{httpd, [{proplist_file,
<span class="hljs-string">"/var/tmp/server_root/conf/8080_props.conf"</span>}]}]}]}].<br class=""><br class="">into an application configuration file<br class=""><br class="">and receive;<br class=""><br class="">'...syntax error before '[' .'<br class=""><br class="">where should i look ?<br class=""><br class="">thank you in advance,<br class="">peter<br class=""></pre></div><br class=""><br class=""></div>
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