Error Messages/41287


Error text

 Too many open '(' parentheses in file.
 First unmatched parenthesis was on or near line %1%, %2% line%3% from end of file.
  
 Edit your file in a word processor to add closing parentheses.  Variables may not appear in the diagram, 
 and errors may occur while checking definitions.
  
 Check definitions?

Cause

This message should only appear when you are loading a model that had been stored from Analytica 2.x or earlier, containing a line with an opening parenthesis and no matching closing parenthesis.

Prior to Analytica 3.0, Analytica required all open parentheses to be matched by a corresponding closing parenthesis. When this was not satisfied, it was unable to successfully load the model. Analytica 2.0 would ensure that parentheses were matched by adding closing parens inside comments to any attribute containing an unmatched paren. That mechanism should have prevented such a situation from occurring, but if you then edited the model in a text editor, or if you changed the attribute in some fashion other than the UI, a situation like this might have occurred.

Remedy

The only remedy for this is to edit the model file in a text editor (such as Notepad or TextPad) and fix the problems. Because files written in Analytica 2.0 or earlier don't necessarily have continuation (~) markers, the file format itself may be ambiguous until you have matched the parens.

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