A bit of help on time protection!

Quoting daemon_delux

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Possibly a newbie question, but I'm trying to put up my EA and time/demo protect it, so begginers don't fry up their account. The demo protection block is already set in place, however I seem to be missing a 1st grader's coding instruction block here :

void checktime()
{
int LastAllowedDate = StrToTime("2013.02.15 23:59:00")
if (TimeCurrent() >= LastAllowedDate)
{ Print("Perioada de demo a expirat " + TimeToStr(LastAllowedDate,TIME_DATE|TIME_SECONDS));
return(1); }
}

And in return and "} - unbalanced parantheses". What...

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Quoting nubcake

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i suspect you have hit upon the mql4 compiler not entirely being aware of the context of possible errors it is meant to be checking. you can't return something from a void function. you can return... but not return some value. the compiler probably gets to the return call and then gets confused once it encounters the open bracket symbol as it should be an end of line symbol. there is an error there, just not quite what the error message hints-at. i think the compiler is crapping itself when it reaches the 1, gives up, and then also realizes...

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Quoting m.m.m.

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Well you seem not quite well at reading, so, here again:

1. You forgot a semicolon in 3rd line...
2. You not need return anything.

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void checktime()
{
  int LastAllowedDate = StrToTime("2013.02.15 23:59:00");
  if (TimeCurrent() >= LastAllowedDate)
  {
    Print("Perioada de demo a expirat " + TimeToStr(LastAllowedDate,TIME_DATE |TIME_SECONDS));
  }
}