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    Default what's wrong with this statement

    When I try to use the following as the beginning of any statement, I get an error:

     
    if (s[i] % 10) > 3)

    How would I go about doing this?



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    Default Re: what's wrong with this statement

    I get an error
    Please copy the full text of the error message and paste it here. It has important info about the error.
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    Default Re: what's wrong with this statement

    Quote Originally Posted by ghostheadx View Post
    When I try to use the following as the beginning of any statement, I get an error:

     
    if (s[i] % 10) > 3)

    How would I go about doing this?

    One open bracket is missing.
    try:
    if (s[i] % 10 > 3)

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    Default Re: what's wrong with this statement

    @aba muhammad
    Removing brackets makes the code harder to read. Properly placed ()s make the code easier to understand and prevents confusion on operator precedents.
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    Default Re: what's wrong with this statement

    I knew that as like a syntax error, but I mean it returns a cannot find symbol error, even when I fix that. Although, I think norm is possibly right.

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    Default Re: what's wrong with this statement

    aba muhammad's point is that there are 2 close parens to only one open paren in the original. There's a paren mismatch. Take one away as aba muhammad suggested or add one to make it look better, but fix the mismatch.

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    Default Re: what's wrong with this statement

    Quote Originally Posted by ghostheadx View Post
    it returns a cannot find symbol error.
    Then the array s is not in scope.
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