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xxelixx

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Posted: 8th Jan 2009 03:12 Edited at: 8th Jan 2009 03:19

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this is my code and it keeps coming up with: Compilation Failed. Could not close nest at line 53.
[a=b

print "You wake up in a daze, you can't see anything."
print "You here a noise coming from up ahead."
print "Do you want to go and investigate? Y/N"
input answer1$

if answer1$=upper$("y") then goto noise_1
if answer1$=upper$("n")
cls
print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
end

rem This is first group of gotos
noise_1:
cls
print "You walk over and find a man."
input "The man aks for your name..."; Name$
print "Where would you want to go..."
input "Town";town1$

if town1$=upper$("town") then goto town1

town1:
cls
print "You walk out of the dark space into a small village."
print "You see a guild, a lodge, and a way to the forest."
print "You should go to the guild, and find out where you are."
set text to bolditalic
input "Where do you want to go?";location1$

if location1$= upper$("guild") then goto guild

guild:
cls
print "Welcome to the guild."
if a=b
print "Would you like to join?Y/N"
input answer2$
endif
if answer2$=upper$("y") then b=1

if a=1
print "Would you like to do a quest?"
endif
end]

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Posted: 8th Jan 2009 03:24 Edited at: 8th Jan 2009 03:26

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you forgot to put an endif here :

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if answer1$=upper$("n")
cls 
print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
end

try adding an endif command below that end..

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Posted: 8th Jan 2009 05:00

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how do you do the code snippet thing?

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Posted: 8th Jan 2009 05:13

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click on code button, paste your code, click on code button again.

top right hand corner of where you enter your message.

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Posted: 8th Jan 2009 05:54

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thx now i have a new problem:

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start:
print "You wake up in a daze, you can't see anything."
print "You here a noise coming from up ahead."
print "Do you want to go and investigate? Y/N"
input answer1$

if answer1$=upper$("y") then goto noise_1
if answer1$=upper$("n")
	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
end
endif
else print "Sorry didn't understand please try again."
	goto start

it doesn't seem to work any suggestions.

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Posted: 8th Jan 2009 08:47 Edited at: 8th Jan 2009 21:03

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@ xxelixx

The 'Endif' needs to be after 'Else', when an If statement is split over a number of lines it needs to follow the sequence, If, Else, EndIf.

Try this...

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start:
print "You wake up in a daze, you can't see anything."
print "You here a noise coming from up ahead."
print "Do you want to go and investigate? Y/N"
input answer1$

if answer1$=upper$("y") then goto noise_1

if answer1$=upper$("n")	
	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
	wait key
        end
else print "Sorry didn't understand please try again."
endif

goto start

noise_1:
return

You are doing well, keep trying.

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Posted: 8th Jan 2009 12:08

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xxelixx

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Posted: 9th Jan 2009 00:13

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thx for the help

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Posted: 14th Jan 2009 00:22 Edited at: 14th Jan 2009 00:24

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I have another problem when I type in the right answer it still doesn't move on to the noise_1

here's the code:

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start:
cls
print "You wake up in a daze, you can't see anything."
print "You here a noise coming from up ahead."
print "Do you want to go and investigate? Y/N"
input answer1$

if answer1$=upper$("y") then goto noise_1
if answer1$=upper$("n")
	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
end
else
cls 
	input "Sorry didn't understand please try again."
	goto start
endif

rem This is first group of gotos
noise_1:
cls
print "You walk over and find a man."
input "The man aks for your name..."; Name$

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Posted: 14th Jan 2009 03:19

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This is how i got it to work, i don't know why upper$ wasn't working, i never use it, anyway:

Change

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input answer1$

to

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input "", answer1$

-For this "" means it's not printing anything, but Im pretty sure its necessary

And I changed

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if answer1$=upper$("y") then goto noise_1
if answer1$=upper$("n")
	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
end
else
cls 
	input "Sorry didn't understand please try again."
	goto start
endif

To

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if answer1$=upper$ ("y") 
	goto noise1
endif

if answer1$=upper$("n")

	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
end

else

cls 
	Print "Sorry didn't understand please try again."
	wait 2000
	goto start
endif

-I basically just took out then, and moved goto noise1 down a line, then ended the 1st if statement. Also, if it didnt understand what the person typed, you had an input statement, not a Print statement.

I also took the Underscore out of "noise_1"

Hope i helped =P
May0

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Posted: 14th Jan 2009 13:20 Edited at: 14th Jan 2009 13:21

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Quote: "-For this "" means it's not printing anything, but Im pretty sure its necessary"

Incorrect. Printing text to accompany an INPUT statement is not necessary. For example, try the following code:

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INPUT "Name? ", name$
PRINT name$
PRINT "Age?"
INPUT age
PRINT age
WAIT KEY

As you'll see, it makes no difference if text is included or not.

To elaborate on what May0naise said, this code:

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if answer1$=upper$("y") then goto noise_1
if answer1$=upper$("n")
	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
end
else
cls 
	input "Sorry didn't understand please try again."
	goto start
endif

Was wrong because you had an 'IF' statement nested within another 'IF' statement. Now, this is usually absolutely fine and works perfectly. However, you had it checking if the user had answered with yes and then, only if they had pressed yes, it would check if they had pressed no.

Thus, whatever happened, one of the two inputs would be false, which is why it wouldn't work.

One last thing, xxelixx. Use more meaningful titles for your posts next time, please. This makes it easier for people to find a solution which is specific to their particular problem in future when they use the search function.

Thanks,

Tom

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Posted: 15th Jan 2009 01:29

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@Tom0001
yeah sorry about that this was an early post
thx

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Posted: 15th Jan 2009 01:33

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I just tried it and it still doesn't work

o well i don,t need it right now.

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Posted: 22nd Jan 2009 00:37

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Ok I need a bit more help, when ever I run this code:

Rem Project: text adventure
Rem Created: Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Rem ***** Main Source File *****
a=b

cls
print "You wake up in a daze, you can't see anything."
print "You here a noise coming from up ahead."
print "Do you want to go and investigate? Y/N"
input "";answer1$

if answer1$=upper$("y")
	goto noise_1
endif
if answer1$=upper$("n")
	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
endif

rem This is first group of gotos
noise_1:
cls
print "You walk over and find a man."
input "The man aks for your name..."; Name$
print "Where would you want to go..."
print "1.)Town"
input town1$

if town1$=upper$("town") then goto town1

town1:
cls
print "You walk out of the dark space into a small village."
print "You see a guild, a lodge, and a way to the forest."
print "You should go to the guild, and find out where you are."
input "Where do you want to go?";location1$

if location1$= upper$("guild")
	goto guild
endif
if location1$= upper$("lodge")
	goto lodge_1
endif
if location1$= upper$("forest")
	goto forest1
endif

guild:
cls
print "GuildMaster:Welcome to the guild."
if a=b
	print "Would you like to join?Y/N"
input answer2$
endif
if answer2$=upper$("y") then b=1

if a=1
	print "Would you like to do a quest?"
endif
print "Go Back?Y/N"
input back1$

if back1$=upper$("y") then goto town1

lodge_1:
cls
print "Bartender:Hello what can I do for you?"
print "1.)Talk"
print "2.)Drink"
input talk$

forest1:
cls
print "Hi there what can I help you with?"
wait key

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Rem Project: text adventure
Rem Created: Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Rem ***** Main Source File *****
a=b

cls
print "You wake up in a daze, you can't see anything."
print "You here a noise coming from up ahead."
print "Do you want to go and investigate? Y/N"
input "";answer1$

if answer1$=upper$("y")
	goto noise_1
endif
if answer1$=upper$("n")
	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
endif

rem This is first group of gotos
noise_1:
cls
print "You walk over and find a man."
input "The man aks for your name..."; Name$
print "Where would you want to go..."
print "1.)Town"
input town1$

if town1$=upper$("town") then goto town1

town1:
cls
print "You walk out of the dark space into a small village."
print "You see a guild, a lodge, and a way to the forest."
print "You should go to the guild, and find out where you are."
input "Where do you want to go?";location1$

if location1$= upper$("guild")
	goto guild
endif
if location1$= upper$("lodge")
	goto lodge_1
endif
if location1$= upper$("forest")
	goto forest1
endif

guild:
cls
print "GuildMaster:Welcome to the guild."
if a=b
	print "Would you like to join?Y/N"
input answer2$
endif
if answer2$=upper$("y") then b=1

if a=1
	print "Would you like to do a quest?"
endif
print "Go Back?Y/N"
input back1$

if back1$=upper$("y") then goto town1

lodge_1:
cls
print "Bartender:Hello what can I do for you?"
print "1.)Talk"
print "2.)Drink"
input talk$


forest1:
cls
print "Hi there what can I help you with?"
wait key

it always does the first (if) statement even if you press n.So what's wrong?

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Posted: 22nd Jan 2009 01:49

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if answer1$=upper$("y")
	goto noise_1
endif
if answer1$=upper$("n")
	cls
	print "Since your scared I won't let you play."
	print "Press any key to exit.Have a bad day."
wait key
endif

Not sure what you mean by that, and this may not be what's causing the problem, but look at it like this: This input in particular requires that there be one of two responses. Only one of these two responses can be true, thus two IF statements separately is not what should be used.

Since only one of these two conditions can be true at the same time, a better supplement would be:

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IF answer1$ = upper$("y")
   GOTO noise_1
ELSE:IF answer1$ = upper$("n")
   CLS
   PRINT "Since you're scared, I won't let you play."
   PRINT "Press any key to exit. Have a bad day."
   WAIT KEY
ENDIF:ENDIF

Also note that using the "IF answer1$ = upper$("y")" will only work if the user inputs Y or N, not y or n in lowercase. To fix this, you should have a line above it of:

answer1$ = upper$(answer1$)

And then check IF answer1$ + "Y"

Good luck,

Tom

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Posted: 23rd Jan 2009 06:12 Edited at: 23rd Jan 2009 06:13

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ok i got that all figured out.
thx

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