I had to change the brackets to x'AD' X'BD', the same as I use for java. The for i = 1, count do a[i] = i * i end statement fixed the problem.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 3:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries This suggestion is probably unrelated to the actual issue, but I see the odd characters ÝC¨ in your note, which I think should display as square brackets. If your terminal emulator is currently set to use code page 37 (or similar), you might try code page 1047. Barkow, Eileen wrote: > I keep getting this error both in MVS and UNIX. > > LUA: //'xcics.lua4z.samplib(cpu)':4: attempt to perform arithmetic on field > '? > ' (a nil value) > > stack traceback: > > //'xcics.lua4z.samplib(cpu)':4: in main chunk > > ÝC¨: ? > > *** > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
