Can anyone tell me what this error means?

Hi all... I¹m trying to set-up a cold fusion application I purchased not to long ago... I¹m running Blue Dragon Server 6.1 and MySQL on a linux box. When I run the application I keep getting an error I¹m not familiar with.

an error huh? eenie meenie, minie moe, please describe the error so we all know...... ;)~ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

whoops... sorry about that... when trying to set a variable: <cfset variable.lt = ³<³> I get this error: Detail: Problem occurred while parsing variables.lt = ³<³ Extended Info: Encountered ³ltWas expecting one of: < FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL> ... <STRING_LITERAL> ... <BOOLEAN_LITERAL ... <IDENTIFIER> ... ³(³ ... ³+² ... ³<INTEGER_LITERAL> I¹m running Blue Dragon Server 6.1 and MySQL on a linux box. Any ideas? BZaccheo On 6/4/04 5:32 PM, "cf@dreamlofts.com" <cf@dreamlofts.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Original Message: > From: Butch Zaccheo > <cfset variable.lt = ³<³> > > I get this error: > > Detail: Problem occurred while parsing variables.lt = ³<³ It's trying to evaluate ³<³ and it can't.  If you want to set "variable.lt" to be the string "³<³" then you need the quotes (<cfset variable.lt = "³<³"> (Note, "variable" isn't a scope within CF. I think you want "variables.lt") If you are trying to set variable.lt to actually evaluate ³<³ and  to be "true" then you could do: <cfset variables.lt = Evaluate("³ LT ³")> It kind of depends on what you're trying to do with the line: <cfset variable.lt = ³<³> --------------------------- Scott Brady http://www.scottbrady.net/

Basically this variable is being written so I can create a right bracket for TAGS. This variable is used to create tags for a preference file. Does blue dragon have a problem with setting the < character to a variable? Cold Fusion MX doesn¹t seem to have a problem with the same variable setting... BZaccheo On 6/7/04 10:02 AM, "Scott Brady" <cf_talk@scottbrady.net> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Anyone else have any ideas on this? BZaccheo On 6/7/04 10:24 AM, "Butch Zaccheo" <zaccheo@comcast.net> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

This works for me (CF5.0).     <cfset variables.lt = "<">     <cfoutput>#variables.lt#</cfoutput> But I don't think it's a good idea to have a variable named "lt"   Anyone else have any ideas on this?   BZaccheo   On 6/7/04 10:24 AM, "Butch Zaccheo" <zaccheo@comcast.net> wrote:   > Basically this variable is being written so I can create a right bracket for   > TAGS. This variable is used to create tags for a preference file. Does blue   > dragon have a problem with setting the < character to a variable? Cold   > Fusion MX doesn¹t seem to have a problem with the same variable setting...   >   > BZaccheo   >   > On 6/7/04 10:02 AM, "Scott Brady" <cf_talk@scottbrady.net> wrote:   >   >> > Original Message:   >>>> >> > From: Butch Zaccheo   >> >   >>>> >> > <cfset variable.lt = ³<³>   >>>> >> >   >>>> >> > I get this error:   >>>> >> >   >>>> >> > Detail: Problem occurred while parsing variables.lt = ³<³   >> >   >> > It's trying to evaluate ³<³ and it can't.  If you want to set "variable.lt"   >> to   >> > be the string "³<³" then you need the quotes (<cfset variable.lt = "³<³">   >> >   >> > (Note, "variable" isn't a scope within CF. I think you want "variables.lt")   >> >   >> > If you are trying to set variable.lt to actually evaluate ³<³ and  to be   >> > "true" then you could do:   >> >   >> > <cfset variables.lt = Evaluate("³ LT ³")>   >> >   >> > It kind of depends on what you're trying to do with the line:   >> > <cfset variable.lt = ³<³>   >> >   >> > ---------------------------   >> > Scott Brady   >> > http://www.scottbrady.net/   >> >   >> >   >   >

thanx Dave... Seems to work fine in CFMX and CF 5.0, but causes and error in Blue Dragon server.. Trying to figure out a workaround.... BZaccheo On 6/7/04 2:47 PM, "Dave Francis" <dfrancis@itworldcanada.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- for >>   > TAGS. This variable is used to create tags for a preference file. Does >> blue ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- "³<³"> ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- to be ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----