#60 DDF parser should detect unterminated " or (

[Anonymous]

I'm just about done with my mod and when I tried to
playtest it, I get this stupid warning:

DDF_MainProcessChar: Read Buffer Size Exceeded, Size:
1024
Error Occured in Line 3825 of DDFTHING
Error Occured in entry [WW2_BRITISH_LIZARD:5557]
Line Contents: BRTL:C:4:NORMAL:CHASE

I've never seen this warning before and it's scaring the
hell outta me. Does anyone know what this means and
does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advanced!

[Andrew Apted]

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It means something that EDGE is parsing (a keyword, string,
state line, etc) exceeds 1024 characters.

My guess is that you have an open bracket "(" which is
missing the closing ")" bracket somewhere before line 3825
(roughly 1000 characters earlier, if that helps :). Maybe
an unterminated string could also cause this error.

[Luke Brennan]

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The problem was he was missing a " in the line
PAIN_SOUND=BRTPN?"; and therefore edge was reading a big
wallop of ddf until it either came across another " or (in his
case) ran out of string buffer.

[Andrew Apted]

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I've renamed this bug with a better description.

[Andrew Apted]

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The code already detected an unterminated (.
I've added code to check for an unterminated string.
It's possible that this will break someone's mod if they use
valid strings which overflow the line (especially level
finale texts in language.ddf).