First off, I'd like the thank the producers, the supporting staff, and my fellow actors, ...

Wait, wrong script.

After making that DragonSpeak Emit Tagger, I looked at the program, and decided to do something I've been meaning to do for a while. Make a DragonSpeak Compiler.

While this program does not produce an actual DSB like the Furcadia program does, it does a pretty mean job of crunching a DragonSpeak script into numbers. And producing lists of variables that are used in the program as well.

Plus it will compare the generated DSB against an actual DSB and flag any differences it finds between the two.

Not something for every day use, but a handy tool for the debugging toolbox.

DragonSpeak Compile Verifier explanation.
DragonSpeak Compile Verifier program.

I tried using this to count my variables and strings, but for some reason it wont show either of those. It says there were no errors and it would compile etc.
do you know any reason why this would be the case?

A couple times I tried to count the ds lines and it said 'scan aborted at line 2.'

Alrighty then.

I think I fixed the scan aborted issue, seems I wasn't clearing the ExitScan variable before the load attempt, ... (Uploaded the fix.)

As for why it's not showing your variables? Not sure, I'd need to get a copy of your DS to run it through the debugger and see what the parser is parsing.

Do you have an email I could send it to?

I tried just this and it wouldn't work, but a lot of my random dreams worked, its weird!

Whispered email address to you.

The script you sent does open in the program, and it does report a few issues with the script, for example:
(5:311) use variable %tool&pastex[11] as an array, and set entry 0 of it to 0
I'm not sure if you can use the ampersand as part of a variable name.

Aside from that, it's got 61 variables, 40 strings, 225 text lines, and should come out as 1658 lines of DragonSpeak when uploaded.

P.S. That short two liner works as well.

So what did you do to get it to work? O.o

Btw & seems to be working fine for me. I normally dont use stuff like that in names but I had just figured out how to use the .y of an array so felt the need to name it for two functions like that:P

Didn't do anything to either my program, or the source, it just, worked, ...

P.S. Am going to look into that usage of & in variable names period, if it produces a unique index into the table for type&more vs type or typemore, then I'll include it into the valid variable letter validator.

Regular variable names accept any character except for space, carriage return, line feed and: ( ) [ ] . ,
String variable names only accept letters and numbers.