getting more information from phantomjs “SyntaxError: Parse error” message

Question

I have a long script that was not written by me. When i run it I get:

phantomjs file.js
SyntaxError: Parse error

i checked out the manual a

Answer 1

Your file.js contains an invalid syntax. You should check it with a syntax validator. An online tool which I have created can be one possible solution, check out http://esprima.org/demo/validate.html.