Multiple IF / ELSE IF statement. Am I going mad?

[divingdave24]

Hi there,

I'm creating a Formula One countdown movie in Flash MX 2004, which stores the start times of all 19 GPs this season. Then based on the current date it shows how many days, hours, mins and secs to the start of the next race.

I have all the dates/times stored and the race name is passed to the movie via the URL, like this:

embed src="countdown.swf?race=malaysia"

I have a multiple IF and ELSE IF statement that I'm totally convinced is fine, but when I publish the movie it throws up 2 errors.


if (raceLocation == "bahrain") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,02,14,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "australia") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,02,28,6,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "malaysia") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,03,04,8,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "china") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,03,18,7,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "spain") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,04,9,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "monaco") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,04,16,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "turkey") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,04,30,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "canada") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,05,13,16,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "europe") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,05,27,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "greatbritain") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,06,11,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "germany") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,06,25,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "hungary") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,07,01,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "belgium") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,07,29,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "italy") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,08,12,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "singapore") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,08,26,12,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "japan") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,09,10,06,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "korea") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,09,24,06,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "brazil") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,10,7,16,0,0,0); }
else if (raceLocation == "abudhabi") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,10,14,13,0,0,0); }
else { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,0,1,1,0,0,0); }

When I run this I see this Output error:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Actions, frame=1:Line 32: ')' or ',' expected
else if (raceLocation == "italy") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,08,12,12,0,0,0); }

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Actions, frame=1:Line 33: 'else' encountered without matching 'if'
else if (raceLocation == "singapore") { var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,08,26,12,0,0,0); }

I've checked the code a dozen times and I'm sure it's right. Am I going mad or have I overlooked something really simpe?

Thanks,
Dave

[Robbus]

It doesn't seem to like the leading zeroes you're adding in your new Date() calls, 08, 09 etc. No idea why it's happy with 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 & 07 though.

BTW that was testing in CS3 but hopefully it'll help you out.

Cheers,
Rob

[divingdave24]

Thanks Rob - that worked!

How weird is that though? I knew there something odd going on but when it's only the leading zeros on 08 and 09 that cause the error then I'm really confused by that. Never come across that before.

Thanks so much for your help.

Cheers,
Dave