>>>>Split() expects array:
>>>>

>>>> string[] vs = SearchString.Split( new  Char[] {':'}  );
>>>>

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>>>Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem...just re-arranged the order of the errors in the Output Window.
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>>Sounds we're back to days of Cobol (as your tagline reminds us), where getting a different error was progress.
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>True, but COBOL would at least tell me a general area for the problem.

Yup, it had some rules, because it was a simple single-pass compiler. Look at the first line with the error - everything beyond it is the stupid compiler trying to parse the rest as if the error never happened, and reporting dozens of phantom errors. As the old rule went - it says 200 errors, you fix two, you get 30; you fix three more, you get 7, you fix two more, you get 28.