Common causes
1. An unexpected number in an import path
Older scripts wrote numeric owner ids as /1000000072/ and the parser treated the segment as a number literal. Modern ChartScript accepts numeric owners through the normal import grammar, so this message now almost always means a different mistake — a stray token on a line that should end:
plot(close) 42 // ⚠ Expected 'end of line', got '42'
2. Missing comma inside a call
plot(close "SMA 20" color=color.aqua)
^ ⚠ Expected 'end of line', got '"SMA 20"'
Add the commas:
plot(close, "SMA 20", color=color.aqua)
3. Line-continuation operator broken by whitespace
The compiler's line-continuation rule requires the operator and a whitespace to be on the next line:
total = volume +
volume[1] // ⚠ the second line starts with +, which continues; OK
total = volume
+volume[1] // ⚠ no space after `+` — treated as a new statement
Add a space after the operator or move it to the end of the previous line.
4. Assigning the result of a block to a mis-indented variable
value =
if cond // ⚠ `if` must be indented
1
else
0
Indent the block:
value =
if cond
1
else
0