Copying text from browser to sketch

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Hello,
Complete starter with Arduino. I want to get temperature measurement going with a thermistor. I found an example of a sketch,

so copied text from the web page and pasted into blank sketch.
I get an error message something like "stray " which I believe is something to do with the copying process.

Can anyone put me right on this?
Thanks

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There's not that much code there, and yes the problem is with the embedded html tags. You'll just need to type the code into the IDE.

And, send a note to the web site author asking that the code be available as a download without the html tags embedded.

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You've been hit by some fancy typography. That website substituted "smart quotes" for the regular double-quotes and Unicode EN-dash for the minus signs in lines 33, 37, and 38.

Re-type the quotes around the string constants and re-type the minus signs and it will compile.

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Thanks for that - not a good start

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not a good start

Fairly unusual, I'd say.