Problems with TechArea.txt - now solved!

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings.

I'm trying to diagnose an error I'm recieving with the tech area file.

When I attempt to load the mod I get the following error message:

header:
"Tech Area Data File Errors: c:\...\techarea.txt"

message:
"Unable to load data file: c:\...\techarea.txt"

There are no actual errors listed or even further descriptions, i.e., missing such and such a requirement like you'd expect. Does this occur if there are too many errors?

What files are dependent? I've debugged possible errors resulting with conflicts in components.txt, vehiclesizes.txt, racialtraits.txt, and the facility.txt files. No double spaces either.

I don't get it. Perhaps someone else has encountered this enigmatic error and could enlighten me?

[ May 01, 2004, 16:51: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Fyron]

Try temporarily deleting the second half of the file, to see which half the problem lays in. Then either cut out half or add half of what was cut out, depending on whether you get an error or not, and so on.

[TNZ]

I don’t know if this will help but I was able to get your error by deleting the word *BEGIN* from the tech area file, try pasting the tech entries only into a new tech area file.

[Captain Kwok]

Greetings.

I've just finished kicking myself in the ***. The problem was this:

code:

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Tech Level Req 2      := VII

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What a waste of time. I must have spent a couple hours diagnosing this problem. I'm so embarrassed!

[Fyron]

Well it is a rather hard problem to detect...