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TalkBASICToMe
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RND(X%)
« Thread started on: Oct 14^th, 2015, 2:55pm »

I was going through the tutorials, when it said this:

"RND(X%) where X% is a positive integer value greater than 1. This will return a random number in the range 1 up to and including X%"

I tried that with some positive integer values of X and got the "missing bracket" error message. Obviously, I checked to see if there was a missing bracket and there wasn't.

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« Reply #1 on: Oct 14^th, 2015, 3:50pm »

After playing around, I think your problem must be that you are doing this:

Code:

PRINT RND(3%)

rather than this:

Code:

PRINT RND(3)

X% is an example of an integer variable, so the % should not be included in the RND statement unless it is part of a variable name:

Code:

X%=3
PRINT RND(X%)

More info on variable types can be found here:

http://bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwin2.html#types

If this is not the problem, please post an example of the sort of code that throws the error.

Simon

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