idl

Hi,I have saved the following as currency.idl using wordpad.


//currency.idl

interface Convertor
{
double convert( in double amount,
in string fromcode,
in string toCode
);
};


In the command prompt window the following happened.

C:\unisa\mico\demo\poa\ASS1>idl currency.idl
currency.idl:1: parse error before '{'

C:\unisa\mico\demo\poa\ASS1>



Why do I get this error?

The answer is eMacs.

I have cut and pasted your IDL into a file using wordpad and used the Orbix IDL compiler on it. The idl compiler was perfectly happy with it. I do not have mico installed at the moment, so cannot check with that.

Are there maybe some funny characters in your file somewhere not shown above? Maybe try to delete everything except the actual interface lines.

Cut and paste and compiles OK with mico idl compiler as well.

I am a bit curious why the error you report indicates a problem with a brace on line 1, which is some way away from the first brace in your file. My guess is that if you copy and paste the contents of the file as you have posted it here you will not have a problem.

Bob

Thanks for the help .
Everything is working in eMacs.

Great.