[rules-users] Trouble with the MVEL Map syntax

[barnesjd]

I'm interested in using the 
http://mvel.codehaus.org/Inline+List,+Maps+and+Arrays compact syntax
available for Maps in MVEL , but I can't quite get it right.  I am
attempting to write a simple function to convert English numbers (i.e.
"one", "two", etc) to the integer value.  This is how I would LIKE it to
work:

/function int englishToInt(String englishNumber)
{
	return ["one":1, "two":2, "three":3, "four":4,
"five":5].get(englishNumber.toLowerCase());
}/

The closest I've gotten to having it work is this:

/function int englishToInt(String englishNumber)
{
	Map m = ["one":1, "two":2, "three":3, "four":4, "five":5];
	Object obj = m.get(englishNumber.toLowerCase());
	
	if(obj != null)
		return Integer.parseInt(obj.toString());
}/

But I get this rather unhelpful error message:
/
Error importing : 'defaultpkg.EnglishToInt.englishToInt'
[ function englishToIntenglishToInt (line:7): Syntax error on tokens, delete
these tokens
 ]/

... What tokens?? lol

Thanks,
Joe


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