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Chris Molloy
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esp8266 stray '\' in code
Mar 14th, 2021 at 10:38pm
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Using esp8266 Nodemcu.  using EEPROM library.
When I try to compile, I get the following:

DustCollectorTimerV2.ino: 78:1: error: stray '\' in program
   int eeprom_run_time = EEPROM.read(0)

Compiling the same code in the Arduino IDE does not get this error.

in eeprom.cpp the debug statements all have'\' in them like:
DEBUGV("EEPROMClass::read error, address %d > %d or %d < 0\n", address, _size, address);
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Re: esp8266 stray '\' in code
Reply #1 - Mar 15th, 2021 at 9:46am
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Thanks for the report.

Can you please attach the build output with the Show Build Properties, and Verbose settings enabled (as shown at the top of this page).

If you can also email or attach the combined DustCollectorTimerV2.CPP file from the build directory so we can analyse this issue further?
  
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Re: esp8266 stray '\' in code
Reply #2 - Aug 28th, 2021 at 7:24am
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Hi !

Had the same issue ... My problem was a faulty file encoding. 
If you open the cpp file in Notepad++ look if the Encoding is UTF-8. 
In my case it was UTF-8-BOM which adds some special chars at the beginning of the file ... 

Maybe this is your problem, too ... 

Dominik
  
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