Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 18:37:16 +0300 From: "Eli Zaretskii" Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il To: "James Patterson" Message-Id: <3405-Sun03Nov2002183715+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <3dc54df2_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> (jp20@tinyworld.co.uk) Subject: Re: if References: <3dc54df2_2 AT mk-nntp-2 DOT news DOT uk DOT tiscali DOT com> Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > From: "James Patterson" > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:26:02 -0000 > > Why would the DJGPP compiler give this error message "stray '\335' in > program" for this line "if((x == 20) || (i == 90))" Thanks in advance. Probably because your bar characters `|' are not bars, but actually a non-ASCII character that looks like a bar.