.LUA: Trouble with nil value

[Organized_Chaos]

I moved on to the next tutorial on that site and when I got my script done and tested it on my PSP I get the error that says:
Error: Button Input.LUA:52: '<eof>' expected near 'end'
Press Start to restart

-- +++++Variables+++++
green = Color.new(0,255,0)
red = Color.new(255,0,0)

upPressed = 'You are pressing the "UP" button'
downPressed = 'You are pressing the "DOWN" button'
leftPressed = 'You are pressing the "LEFT" button'
rightPressed = 'you are pressing the "RIGHT" button'
LPressed = 'You are pressing the "L" button'

-- +++++Main Loop+++++ while true do
screen:clear()

pad = Controls.read()
-- these next line of code uses the variables I just made.
if pad:up() then
screen:print(100,100,upPressed,green)
end
if pad:down() then
screen:print(100,100,downPressed,red)
end
if pad:left() then
screen:print(100,100,leftPressed,green)
end
if pad:right() then
screen:print(100,100,rightPressed,red)
end
if pad:l() then
screen:print(100,100,LPressed,green)
end

-- Now for those other five buttons. I will write the text directly in the print statement for these, just to practice 

different methods.
if pad:r() then
screen:print(100,100,'You are pressing the "R" button',green)
end
if pad:triangle() then
screen:print(100,100,'You are pressing the "TRIANGLE" button',green)
end
if pad:circle() then
screen:print(100,100,'You are pressing the "CIRCLE" button',green)
end
if pad:cross() then
screen:print(100,100,'You are pressing the "X" button',green)
end
if pad:square() then
screen:print(100,100,'You are pressing the "SQUARE" button',green)
end

screen.waitVblankStart()
screen.flip()
end

I have no clue what eof means. It's part of my error message I keep getting.

[Organized_Chaos]

Originally Posted by Organized_Chaos

-- +++++Main Loop+++++ while true do
screen:clear()

There was my problem. In the tutorial "-- *****Main Loop****** while true do" was all on one line and it needed to be split up. I moved "while true do" down to a line between those two lines. That section of code now reads

-- +++++Main Loop+++++ 
while true do
screen:clear()

I am glad I was able to figure that one out by myself.

[RazorChrist]

Coo. Hey, if you need some help with errors or how to script something, you can always pm me and I can take a look at it. I'm pretty decent at LUA, and I've got a co-worker that does games in LUA as well.

[lua scripter]

hey your words were messed when its myBrithyear it can be MyBrithYear just myBrithyear heres your code

-- NOTES
-- Green Color Object
green = Color.new(0, 255, 0)

-- Store birth year in variable myBirthYear
myBirthyear = 1991

-- Store current year in currentYear
currentYear = 2008

-- create an empty variable
myAge = nil

-- Store some text in a variable (Note the space after the last word before the end ")
someText = "My age is roughly "

-- Subtract myBirthYear from currentYear and store in myAge
myAge = currentYear - myBirthyear

-- Print our text variable to the screen 



screen:print(10,100, someText ,green) 



-- Buffer offscreen to onscreen (If this was a human, offscreen would be thinking about it, onscreen would be saying it)



screen.flip()
-- Loop forever
while true do
screen.waitVblankStart()
end

[lua scripter]

dont mess with while true do