"error CS1525: Unexpected symbol" on Run (Alt+Shift+Enter)

[davidhq]

Hi!

Great tool! I have a problem though...

I paste this in the window:

List<string> strings = new List<string>();
strings.Add("Good");
strings.Add("Morning")
strings.Add("Starshine");
strings.Add("The");
strings.Add("Earth");
strings.Add("says");
strings.Add("hello");

strings.Where(s => s.Length == 5);

and when I hit Alt+Shift+Enter I get:

(4,0): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol strings'`

When I move to each line and hit Alt+Enter everything executes well...:

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]

[Evaluating external code (Scratchpad.csx)]
{Earth, hello}

so it must be some kind of bug... can you please check?

thank you!
david

[lukebuehler]

There are 2 things going on, first you forgot a semicolon ";" on the 3rd line. But you are right, pasting multi-line statements to the REPL doesnt work right now, but I'll add that soon, I think it should be supported.

If add all the code to one line and fix the colon it should work.

[lukebuehler]

One more thing, if you select the whole block of code in a script file and then hit alt+Enter it will work!

[davidhq]

oh the semicolon! that's the culprit for the entire issue...
when I add it, everything works.. so not sure what you are saying that pasting multi-line statements doesn't work...

when I don't add the semicolon, select the entire code and hit alt+Enter, it's still the same error..

the reason I didn't pick up on the error message saying the error was on (4,0) is that I was sure the problem is in the first line and (4,0) is referring to "strings" symbol there.. when in reality it was the 4th line (because the semicolon was missing on the third line)..

I'm happy , everything works! :) thank you!