Heheh, soo I’m new at this… but I’m having so much fun writing, I can’t stop! Anywho… So, I’m trying to let the player chose their gender. I created the variables and tested the game out. Here is the error I am talking about: “gender line 15: Illegal mixing of spaces and tabs; this line has a s…

Use the search on the forum. [image] Confusing error message: "illegal mixing of spaces and tabs" -- but I AM using tabs! It means you mixed tabs and spaces on the same line. As in, you hit the tab key, then the space key, on the same line when indenting (or the space key, then the tab key).

Male choice is formatted like the Female!

What do you use to code? It usually means that you have both tab and soace used to create indents.

With the choicescript addon? Iirc that can help prevent mixing. Alternative try checking CSide?

I have tried checking CSide, but I think the old way is easier tbh, but thanks anyway! ^^

What I did when I used notepad++ (I use CSIDE now) was set it to replace tabs with spaces. That way you don’t accidentally get them mixed up. If you must use actual tabs, you may have a single, hard to see, space at the front of one of the lines - that quite often occurs when you delete things (or a…

Illegal mixing of spaces and tabs

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RETowers April 24, 2018, 3:03pm 8

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Illegal mixing of spaces and tabs

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