[Norseband] Help needed to untangle p_info error!

[ISNorden]

In my latest upload of Norseband (revised last night), I get a parsing error in line 653 of the p_info.txt file. (Entry #5 contains a problem line reading "C:a:g:Melkor Bauglir"; we haven't de-Tolkienized the god code yet, but don't know what else might be causing the problem. Any constructive ideas or advice you can offer would be very welcome, thanks...

[Nick]

Originally Posted by ISNorden

In my latest upload of Norseband (revised last night), I get a parsing error in line 653 of the p_info.txt file. (Entry #5 contains a problem line reading "C:a:g:Melkor Bauglir";

In my (too extensive) experience with parse errors in edit files, there is usually a message giving extra detail - like "sequential error record", for example, which means you have entries out of order (this isn't one of those). That might tell you more about the problem - I can't see anything obvious from a quick glance at the edit file.

[ISNorden]

Originally Posted by Nick

In my (too extensive) experience with parse errors in edit files, there is usually a message giving extra detail - like "sequential error record", for example, which means you have entries out of order (this isn't one of those). That might tell you more about the problem - I can't see anything obvious from a quick glance at the edit file.

The message I got said "Error 1 at line 653 of p_info.txt" and "Record 5 [a class description] contains a 'parse error' error." Based on my edit-file tweaking experience, I know that usually means I mistyped an item, or tried to add one that the game doesn't recognize...neither of which is true now. Does my quote help you narrow things down, though?

[Nick]

Originally Posted by ISNorden

The message I got said "Error 1 at line 653 of p_info.txt" and "Record 5 [a class description] contains a 'parse error' error." Based on my edit-file tweaking experience, I know that usually means I mistyped an item, or tried to add one that the game doesn't recognize...neither of which is true now. Does my quote help you narrow things down, though?

A little. That's the message for a bunch of things that could have gone wrong - missing colon, missing field, wrong number of arguments, etc. Line 653 doesn't seem to have anything wrong with it that I can see; I think the problem might be in the processing rather than the edit file itself. Sorry not to be of more use.

[ISNorden]

Originally Posted by Nick

A little. That's the message for a bunch of things that could have gone wrong - missing colon, missing field, wrong number of arguments, etc. Line 653 doesn't seem to have anything wrong with it that I can see; I think the problem might be in the processing rather than the edit file itself. Sorry not to be of more use.

OK, I'll fill Zop in on the error when I hear from him again; he's doing most of the code work on this project, but is also fairly busy with real life.

[ISNorden]

Update: The parsing errors in p_info.txt have been fixed now...partly by replacing an outdated file, partly by removing some skills (and specialist classes) that I considered unsuitable to the new setting. So far, the alpha version seems to work for now.