Question

I have been trying to find ways to solve the problem. Firebug said syntax error, and JSHint is saying “Expected an identifier and instead saw ‘var’.” on line 4 (var test1 = [) Could you tell me why this error is taking place? Thanks!

function name() {
    if (
    var test1 = ['selected': -1, 'AF': 0.02];
    var selectedTest1 = $('#test1').val();
    var rate = rates(selectedTest1);
    var callMinutes = document.calc.minutes.val();
    document.calc.pay.value = selectedTest1 * callMinutes;)
    else(
    (document.calc.test1.value == null) || (document.calc.minutes.value == null || document.calc.minutes.value.length == 0)) {
        document.calc.pay.value = "Incomplete data";
    }
};

Answer 1

It is not valid to put a var statement inside an if condition. That aside, your code can be boiled down to:

if( define some variables here)
else (something that makes no sense) {
    show an error
}

The code is completely invalid.