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So, i'm having a bracket issue in line 83:9 or where the slashes are. it's telling me " error: expected identifier or '(' before '{' token", I don't understand how i am receiving this error. If somebody can explain to me how I'm receiving it, thank you.

   _Bool palindromes(char string[])
    {
    int i = 0;
    while(string[i]=0 != '\0')
            {
            i++;
            int last_place = i - 1;
                    for(int n=0; n<=last_place; n++)
                            {
                    if(string[n] == string[last_place])
                    {
                    last_place--;
                    continue;
                    }

                    if(n !=last_place)
                    {
                    return false;
                    }

                            }
            }

      }

    { //here is the issue
    while(string[i]=0 != '\0')
    int i=0;
            {
            i++;
            int last_place = i - 1;
                    for(int n=0; n<=last_place; n++)
                    {
                    if(string[n] == string[last_place])
                            {
                    return true;
                            }
                    }
            }
       }
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Member Avatar for Reverend Jim

Try re-indenting your code with a consistent formatting of your brace brackets. For example, in some cases your { is placed at (almost) the same level following a statement as in

_Bool palindromes(char string[])
 {

and then you do

if(string[n] == string[last_place])
        {
return true;
        }

You also do

while(string[i]=0 != '\0')
int i=0;
        {
        i++;

which makes no sense. If you apply a consistent style and make your indentation actually match your control structures your problem will become more obvious.

Edited by Reverend Jim
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While it's poorly formatted (F rated), line 26 as presented doesn't make sense to me why there is a brace there. That is, you have your _Bool palindromes and it's left brace on line 2 and on line 24 it's closing right brace then you have an opening brace without a reason why. No new function or such so ... explain why you did that.

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