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

[OJ Reeves]

Hi Boris,

Your mistake is that the first line of your placeorder function is
terminated with period (.) instead of a comma (,).

If you make this change you should be fine.

Best regards
OJ



On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Boris Barvish <bbarvish@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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!
>
> 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, ",").
>
>   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.
>
>
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