Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input line 1

Question

Hi there I am trying to figure out what is going wrong. I am getting the error

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input in line 1

which is

 var itemList = new Array();

A snippet of the code is included

var itemList = new Array();

$( document ).ready(function(){
var $newItem = $('#newItem');
var $itemList =$('#itemList');
var itemTouchStart;
var itemTouchEnd;
var itemTouchStartX;
var itemTouchEndX;

if( window.localStorage) //when application starts check if there is data
{
    itemList = JSON.parse(window.localStorage.getItem('itemList'));
}

if(null !== itemList)
{
    for (i=0;i<itemList.length; i++)
    {
        var itemNew = '<li data-key="'+ itemList[i].key +'"><span>' 
+itemList[i].item +'</span></li>';
        $itemList.append(itemNew);
    }

}
else
{
    itemList = new Array();
}

I think we need the whole code, because the error can be }); missing at the end.... or not. — Jeremy Thille

T.J. Crowder T.J. Crowder · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-08T11:27:24

The line number of the error is wrong. The problem is at the end, you never close the function you're passing into ready or the call to it. Add }); at the end.

If that's missing only because you quoted a

...snippet of the beginning of the code...

...then the answer is that there's nothing wrong with line 1 that's apparent from your question. Weird errors like that can sometimes be down to invisible characters in the source, but I would expect to see an illegal character error rather than unexpected end of input. Unexpected end of input is pretty much what it says: You have a control structure of some kind open and haven't closed it when the parser reaches the end of the code text.

I find the Meteor JavaScript parser page is quite handy for diagnosing syntax errors.

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input line 1

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