# Error when drawing lines, Please help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-when-drawing-lines-please-help/235446>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 11, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-when-drawing-lines-please-help/235446 "2007-08-11T02:17:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevin416](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kevin416](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kevin416)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-when-drawing-lines-please-help/235446/1 "2007-08-11T02:17:40Z")

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Flash doesn’t seem to like this:

```auto
drawit = function (b, c) {
    _root.lineStyle(1, #666666);
    _root.moveTo(points **.x, points**.y);
    _root.lineTo(points[c].x, points[c].y);
    _root.moveTo(points **.x, points**.ema);
    _root.lineTo(points[c].x, points[c].ema);
};

```

```auto
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 11: Operator '=' must be followed by an operand
         _root.lineStyle(1, #666666);

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

```

I wasn’t aware that I was using a “=” operator. What does this error mean?  
Thank you so much for any help

Kevin