Unrecognised Escaped Char

[tjetson]

Hi there. I'm using PE version 5.3.0 under Windows 7 x64. I'm trying to download some code to an 18X. The code contains the line

pause 4000

At the start. When trying to compile, simulate or syntax check, it highlights the above line and comes up with the following error:

'pause 2000


Error: Unrecognised escaped char 0x4E; will use it anyway.

I even tried to download while commenting out the pause line, but the error persists. Removing the line gives the same error, but with nothing highlighted and the error message has a blank space instead of quoting the offending line. I have been able to download before under this version of the editor.

EDIT2: I can download other files which still contain a pause at the start, so might this be a corrupt .bas file on my PC or something?

EDIT: It actually appears to highlight the first line of the code, not necessarily the PAUSE line. I removed it and deleted the 2 or so lines beneath it till the first line was a DO. It now highlights this DO and still has an error. It appears to always be a 0x4E error, if that helps.

EDIT3: And now the error has disappeared completely. All is well

 

[Technical]

This normally occurs when you have an 'invisible' character on screen, which mostly occurs after a cut and paste from a PDF file or swapping a file between linux/windows/mac.

In general completely deleting the offending line (until the line above become the current line) will solve it.

 

[tjetson]

which mostly occurs after a cut and paste from a PDF fileQUOTE]

There's my problem. Cheers