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  • ! Script suddenly saying “Unterminated String Constant” !

    Posted by Bryan Woods on March 19, 2013 at 12:43 am

    My script just suddenly started throwing up this error and disabling the expression the script puts into the source text field. As far as I can tell, NOTHING has been changed in my script. I haven’t touched it in months now and its been working perfectly fine. Now all of a sudden, I can’t get the damn thing to work, and I’ve got a deadline RAPIDLY approaching. Someone shoot me already.

    If anyone has any idea what the hell this error means, please let me know. Thanks.

    Bryan Woods replied 13 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Todd Kopriva

    March 19, 2013 at 3:14 am

    It would help if you shared your script.

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    After Effects quality engineering
    After Effects team blog
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  • Bryan Woods

    March 19, 2013 at 3:22 am

    I figured out the problem. The issue though was the warning message wouldn’t tell me where the error was. Just a line number. But that could be referring to the script, the expression, or the text file! Very frustrating! I eventually found out it was the text file that I was pulling from. I forgot to close my quoted text while adding a new variable.

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