0003557: Omitting space characters in #calc dictionary entry leads to incomprehensible error

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003557	OpenFOAM	Bug	public	2020-09-25 13:25	2020-09-25 16:36

Reporter	endres	Assigned To	henry
Priority	low	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Platform	Linux	OS	OpenSuSE Tumbleweed	OS Version	20200622

Summary	0003557: Omitting space characters in #calc dictionary entry leads to incomprehensible error
Description	When omitting the space characters in a #calc dictionary entry (for example "2$testVar/0.13" instead of "2 $testVar / 0.13") leads to the error message 'error: ‘$testVar’ was not declared in this scope' although the variable testVar has been declared in the line above. Formulas without space characters used to work in OpenFoam 7 but do not work anymore in OpenFoam 8 and OpenFoam-dev (dev-a972b208ee71).
Steps To Reproduce	- Include the following two lines in the blockMeshDict of any case, for example the pipeCyclic tutorial: testVar 0.5; testVar2 #calc "2*$testVar/0.13"; - run blockMesh in OpenFoam 8
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-09-25 13:25	endres	New Issue
2020-09-25 13:41	henry	Note Added: 0011525
2020-09-25 16:36	henry	Assigned To	=> henry
2020-09-25 16:36	henry	Status	new => closed
2020-09-25 16:36	henry	Resolution	open => no change required

henry 2020-09-25 13:41 manager ~0011525	That is correct, you will need to space the operators or use '()'s around the variables to define the boundaries of the variable name.