I get the error LoadError: syntax: "" is not a unary operator every time I try to run Julia from the terminal by typing ‘julia’. The file that doesn’t load is a startup file that says hello every time I run Julia. ERROR: LoadError: syntax: "" is not a unary operator Stacktrace: [1] top-level scop…

[image] localpara: I’m using TextEdit on Mac which saves the file as .rtf, but I change it to .jl afterwards. Is this a TextEdit issue? That is likely the issue. RTF files are not regular text files, but also contain formatting instructions. You need to save your code as a raw text file.

LoadError: syntax: "\" is not a unary operator

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simeonschaub June 4, 2021, 3:37pm 6

That is likely the issue. RTF files are not regular text files, but also contain formatting instructions. You need to save your code as a raw text file.

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LoadError: syntax: "\" is not a unary operator

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