[Odie]

Originally Posted by spot

Odie, this is an attempt at giving good advice though I doubt whether it'll be accepted as such. It's something I learned when I started out in computing and it's saved me a stack of time and effort.

In a situation where the rest of the world gets the expected result and you get an error, the error is the result of a mistake you're making, it's not the result of a problem out there in the world itself.

if you can manage to grasp that - and it took me a while to grasp it - you'll save a lot of time fixing your problems.

The answers you need are in this thread, all you need do is read it without blinkers.

is this a puzzle?

a test?

the answers were not here.