[rules-users] What's wrong with the connectives?

Hi all, Can somebody help me here?? I've a business rule presented in bold here that I've put in the DRL file in the simplest form but compilation of rule is generating this error "line 6:342 required (...)+ loop did not match anything at character ' '" And any set of value is getting evaluated to TRUE.....that means rule validation is not happening.....I understand that I can use helper function in java classes and call them in the rule but wanted to know how can I do the same entirely in DRL file OR what's wrong with this. I've spent entire day to figure out but completely clueless and afraid to try function approach due to project deadline. Plz help. pers: Person(sourceType == 'Insurance' && (age != null && > 17) && ((cholesterol !=null && >= 200) || (hdlCholesterol !=null && < 60) || (cholesterolToHdlRation !=null && > 4.5) || (ldlCholesterol !=null && >160) || (vldl !=null && > 40) || (triglyceride !=null && > 50) || (glucose !=null && >130) || (bmi !=null && >=25) || (bodyFat > 0. 25 && sbjGdrCd !=null && == 'F' && age !=null && > 17 && < 40) || (bodyFat > 0.30 && sbjGdrCd !=null && == 'F' && age !=null && > 39 && < 60) || (bodyFat > 0.31) && sbjGdrCd !=null && == 'F' && age !=null && age > 60) || (bodyFat > 0.19 && sbjGdrCd !=null && == 'M' && age !=null && >17 && < 40) || (bodyFat > 0.23 && sbjGdrCd !=null && == 'M' && age !=null && age > 39 < 60) || (bodyFat > 0.24 && sbjGdrCd !=null && == 'M' && age !=null && >=60))) //Age>=18 AND Total Cholesterol >=200 OR HDL <60 OR Cholesterol Ratio and age between or equal to 18 and 39 OR Body Fate % greater than the range of 18% and 30% when gender = F and age between or equal to 40 and 59 OR Body Fat % greater than the range of 21% and 31% when gender = F and age age between or equal to 18 and 39 OR Body Fat % greater than the range of 14% and 23% when gender = M and age between or equal to 40 and 59 OR Body Fat % greater than the range of 15% and 24% when gender = M and age >60 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What%27s-wrong-with-the-connectives--tp20571531p205... Sent from the drools - user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.