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Useful Syntax Errors

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:34 pm
by bart
It has always bugged me that Texis is somewhat less than helpful with syntax errors. Perhaps you could print the leading and following tokens around the error. Here's an example of a really not useful error message:

<!-- 015 impdafif:8: Line 8: syntax error at "," -->

on this sql:

<sql "create table arpts (
id counter,
Geocode long,
Lat float,
Lon float,
Elev int,
Icaos varchar(10),
Name varchar,
LongRwy int,
Surface varchar(20),
Lights varchar(20),
Fuels varchar(20),
Food varchar(20),
ARPT_IDENT varchar(7)
)"></sql>