Error Messages/40069

Error message examples

 A dot operator must be followed by a name that is a legal identifier. For example in the expression
      A.Ind
 Ind must be a literal name. This would access a local index of A with the name Ind at evaluation time.

Cause

In your expression, a dot operator was not followed by a valid index.

The dot operator in a.i lets you access a local index i via an array a that it dimensions. If a local index identifies a dimension of an array that becomes the value of a global variable, it can persist long after evaluation of the expression — unlike other local identifiers which disappear after the expression is evaluated.

Remedies

Correct the expression so the dot operator is followed by a valid index.

See Also

• Dot operator::A.I
• Identifier
• Index
• Local Indexes
• Local Values