Solidity compile Error: Expected primary expression help

Question

Compile Error

I cannot understand why this happens.I copied and pasted this code from https://zoom-blc.com/how-to-create-first-dapp

Error message is as follows:

truffle(develop)> compile
Error parsing /Users/akitasatoshi/pet-shop-tutorial/contracts/Adoption.sol: ParsedContract.sol:10:3: ParserError: Expected primary expression.
  　 return petId;
  ^

The code is as follows:

pragma solidity ^0.4.23;

contract Adoption {

  address[16] public adopters;

  function adopt(uint petId) returns(uint) { 
    require(petId >= 0 && petId =< 15);
    adopters [pedId] = msg.sender;
    return petId;
  }

  function getAdopters(uint) public returns (address[16]) {
    return adopters;
  }

Answer 1

A few things:

• There's no closing brace on your contract.
• There's a space in the line adopters [pedId].
• There's a typo in the same line. pedId -> petId.

The actual issue you've reported is due to =<, which should be <=.

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Edit:

I copied and pasted this code from...

Okay, I tried copy+pasting from that site, and Remix didn't like it. There seem to be some special characters at the beginning of each line that are causing problems, specifically U+3000, which is the "Ideographic Space" character. Might be related to it being a Japanese site? Don't know.

Removing any whitespace from the beginning of each line, then re-indenting using a "normal" space/tab gets things working.

Answer 2

I experienced a similar error when defining an event. The problem was that I was defining it inside of a function, when it should have been at the contract level.