Code only works in Air Coding mode

Questions
1

For some reason this line is giving me an error when trying to run from my device, but works fine when I am using Air Code.

local goal1 = math.tointeger(readText(asset.documents.g1))

the error is: bad argument #1 to ‘tointeger’ value expected

Please help!

2

What is g1 supposed to be. tointeger will only convert text digits. If there’s a decimal point or alpha characters, it returns nil. It also returns nil if there too many digits.

PS. I’ve never used Air Code so I can’t comment why it works there.

3

it is a txt file that only contains “3000”

4

I created a text file named g1 with the value of 3000 in it. This ran OK and printed 3000. Do you have 3000 in “ “ or just 3000 and nothing else.

displayMode(STANDARD)

function setup()    
    local goal1 = math.tointeger(readText(asset.documents.g1))  
    print(goal1)  
end
5

hmm I just ran that code with my g1, and it worked. I think my issue is that the line in my other code is not inside of any function block. Do you know how I could fix this? I would like to reference it from another function later.

6

Don’t make goal1 local. If a variable is local it can only be accessed from the function it’s in. If it not local (global) it can be accessed anywhere.

7

got it thanks! everything works now. Yea the global solution was pretty obvious… I kept putting global in front of my variables (whoops)… Thanks so much for the help!

8

That’s what I’m here for. Glad it works. If you have any other questions, just ask.