What is API error "ERROR: Unable to find character target in chat command." ?

The API console is logging a lot of errors when certain things happen.  For example whenever I do one command the API console gets anywhere from 15 to 18 of these messages. ERROR: Unable to find character target in chat command.  My API script is not logging this, so  I assume the system is. What does it mean and what precisely causes to to log a bunch of these? Thanks. 

Do you have a simple reproduction script?  I’ve not seen this error before?

What scripts do you have installed?  If you disable any of them, does it go away?

This should stem from you using e.g @{Tim|strength} in an API-sent chat message when there's no character named Tim.

Oh!  Actually, I bet it’s a @{target|...} reference. 

The Aaron said: Oh!  Actually, I bet it’s a @{target|...} reference.  D'oh, yes!

We should chip in and buy the API a few " characters, would make the error message easier to decipher: ERROR: Unable to find character "target" in chat command. 

Thanks! I bet it is exactly that it should be  ERROR: Unable to find character "target" in chat command. The many, many error messages sometimes appear in the chat log when the API sends the very long string below that produces this. How many targets? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The long string that produces this is.  "&{template:default} {{name=How many targets? [1](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[2](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[3](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Third Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[4](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Third Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Forth Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[5](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Third Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Forth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Fifth Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[6](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Third Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Forth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Fifth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Sixth Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[7](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Third Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Forth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Fifth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Sixth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Seventh Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[8](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Third Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Forth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Fifth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Sixth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Seventh Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Eighth Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[9](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Third Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Forth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Fifth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Sixth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Seventh Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Eighth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Ninth Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)[10](!edParse~ TargetTypeÒ PD~ TokenListÒ -KjPVHb87Nl0KPEwaI0S~ TargetSetÒ @{target|First Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Second Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Third Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Forth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Fifth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Sixth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Seventh Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Eighth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Ninth Target|token_id}Ò @{target|Tenth Target|token_id}~ ActionÒ TÒ 2Ò 0)}}" Now the weird thing is that the chat buttons always appear, but sometimes the console log errors appear, and sometimes they don't. And sometimes the buttons don't work right. So it might be an intermittent error that sometimes nothing appears in the console log, and the buttons all work. And sometimes something appears in the console log, and not all the buttons work. Or something like that.  I guess I just need to dive deeper, but thanks for putting me on track of the  character "target".

Oh yeah, that's rife with @{target} calls.  You'll need to escape those.  I use this function: const HE = (() => {     const esRE = (s) => s.replace(/(\\|\/|\[|\]|\(|\)|\{|\}|\?|\+|\*|\||\.|\^|\$)/g,'\\$1');     const entities = {         '<' : '&'+'lt'+';',         '>' : '&'+'gt'+';',         "'" : '&'+'#39'+';',         '@' : '&'+'#64'+';',         '{' : '&'+'#123'+';',         '|' : '&'+'#124'+';',         '}' : '&'+'#125'+';',         '[' : '&'+'#91'+';',         ']' : '&'+'#93'+';',         '"' : '&'+'quot'+';'     };     const re = new RegExp(`(${Object.keys(entities).map(esRE).join('|')})`,'g');     return (s) => s.replace(re, (c) => (entities[c] || c) ); })(); Just call HE() on what you're putting in the button and it should work.