wrong syntax - why? Topic is solved

[braunbaer]

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Global SearchWindows:=object()
...
SearchWindows[A_Gui]:={Result: XResult}
...
x:=SearchWindows[A_Gui].Result

What is wrong with the last line? I get the error message:

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myscript.ahk
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Error at line 1606.

The following variable name contains an illegal character:
"SearchWindows[A_Gui].Result"

The program will exit.
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OK   
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[swagfag]

theres nothing wrong with it.
uve edited and whittled down ur script to the point that the example no longer contains any errors

[braunbaer]

But I get this error message.

The 3 lines are the only lines of the script where the variable name "Searchwindows" appears.

edit
I removed the line with the error, loaded the file - it loaded without error
Now I put the line back where it was (copy and paste from the original file) , and now, the script loads without error message.

I don't need to understand everything

[AHKStudent]

But I get this error message.

The 3 lines are the only lines of the script where the variable name "Searchwindows" appears.

Error at line 1606? Is there an include file

[braunbaer]

There are several include files and it's a big script.
No idea what has gone wrong, but luckily it works now...

[swagfag]

edit
I removed the line with the error, loaded the file - it loaded without error
Now I put the line back where it was (copy and paste from the original file) , and now, the script loads without error message.

I don't need to understand everything

if uve changed nothing, uve fixed nothing

somewhere in ur script, u probably had(note the legacy assignment):

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x=SearchWindows[A_Gui].Result
...
%x% := ...

but unless ure developing with a VCS we cant know what(if anything) changed since

[braunbaer]

if uve changed nothing, uve fixed nothing

Thats what I would have believed. Obviously, there must have been a change.

somewhere in ur script, u probably had(note the legacy assignment):

No. I've posted the error message, which shows the line number of the error (it's the last code line I posted in the opening posting of the thread) and what the "incorrect variable" looks like:
The following variable name contains an illegal character:
"SearchWindows[A_Gui].Result"

Even if I had made a legacy assignment (which certainly is not the case), that would not explain the error message I got.

%x% := ...

lol...
BTW, this would give a runtime error, but would not produce an error message when the script is loaded.

[swagfag]

there must have been a change.

well, not necessarily. the error complains about trying to declare a variable whose name is what-u-see-in-the-error-message(which happens to include illegal characters, ie [, ] and .)
if a code path is taken where u don't try to declare such a variable, obviously no error shall be emitted. for all i care, ur script might as well have executed with no errors the very next time u ran it, without having changed anything at all. i dont have ur script, so its pointless to speculate