Compilation error: semi colon expected

[Caravelle]

This occurs on my Win XP2 laptop using B4PPC v6.8. The program is a simple sqlite data search widget in which I type in a search string and get back the relevant data. It works perfectly when run from the IDE but it won't compile (optimised) for a Windows.exe, giving the error message:
"Error message: error CS1002: ; expected
Line number: 38
Line: Temp=Temp & recList.Item(9) & " " recList.Item(10) & " " & recList.Item(11)"
[If anyone knows how to copy and paste these error messages, please let me know!]

So what's this about a semi-colon being expected?
The entire program is attached, but not the 40 Megabyte database it looks at. I wrote it for use on the laptop, so haven't attempted to compile it for my iPAQ.

Many thanks in advance for any clues how to fix this.

Caravelle

[agraham]

You are missing an ampersand. This is a classic error that the IDE lets you get away with but the compiler doesn't.

Temp = Temp & recList.Item(9) & " " & recList.Item(10) & " " & recList.Item(11)

[Caravelle]

Ah, that fixed it, thanks.

The Delphi equivalent I'm used to wouldn't have run from the IDE with a concatenation error like that - I sort of assumed that if it runs OK, it's OK.

So how come the error message says that a semi-colon is expected? One for the confusing error message list?

Thanks again, now to move on to the next one.

Caravelle

[agraham]

Originally Posted by Caravelle

So how come the error message says that a semi-colon is expected?

For optimised compilation the code is translated to C#. In C# every statement is terminated by a semi-colon. Without the ampersand the optimising compiler translated the code into an erroneous form where the C# compiler thought that a statement had ended without the terminating semi-colon. Hence the error.

[Caravelle]

<sigh>

As far as I'm concerned the main purpose of any programming language other than a variety of C is to avoid the user having to work with any variety of C !

Thanks

Caravelle