I suddenly cannot multiply

[Mike Tanton]

Hi Guys....

I suddenly cannot multiply....  '*' - illegal operation use

I initially thought this was just a temperamental phase that my computer was going thru... BUT... it's now becoming serious.... 

Can anyone help me out here.... I am speechless....  It's driving me nuts....

 

      ,"\nBB Value = ",BBvalue*PipMultiplier);

 

Thanx....

[Stuart Browne]

Can you at least show the full line of code? Pretty hard to work out your problem with that snippet

[Mike Tanton]

Hi Stuart...

 That's exactly my issue.... It is as simple as that.... I suddenly cannot '*' multiply anymore... I get the error msg:  '*' - illegal operation 

Seriously... I'm not trying to be funny here...

 I have other sections of my code that multiply and carry on as usual...

...but suddenly.... I can't...?

It's driving me nuts because this should be such a simple procedure.... and I can't work it out.....

 Soooo...... 

[Mike Tanton]

Ummm... this is very strange but I'm probably getting it wrong...

 If I do this... it works no problem:

double a;
double B=BBvalue;
   a=B*PipMultiplier;

 But then... if I try to simply do this:

      ,"\nBB Value = ",BBvalue*PipMultiplier);

 ...then I get the error message....

 I guess I can live with this but I would really like to know why I had to do this work around....

 Anyways....

Thanx 

[Stuart Browne]

MikeT:

Ummm... this is very strange but I'm probably getting it wrong...

 If I do this... it works no problem:

 But then... if I try to simply do this:

 ...then I get the error message....

 I guess I can live with this but I would really like to know why I had to do this work around....

 Anyways....

Thanx 

Hey Mike

That snippet of code looks like it's from a Print() or Comment() block. Can you post the whole thing mate? If that line is out there by itself then it makes no sense which is why it won't work....

[Osama Shaban]

MikeT:

,"\nBB Value = ",BBvalue*PipMultiplier);

Be sure that BBvalue never equal to zero during EA operation ... also ...

use DoubleToString(xxxx,xxxx) for Comment( ), Alert( ), Print( ), .... 

[Farrukh Aleem]

May be types of variable different , when you ask for help you should paste an executable code to be tested.

[Hector Pacheco]

,"\nBB Value = ",BBvalue*PipMultiplier);

 

 Hi, how are you. Verifies that the value of the function is not passed by reference. That could be the error because you can not return a value to a mathematical operation.