My code is below and i am getting an error message
"exit status 1
expected primary-expression before ';' token" at for Serial.print("Received: "); for(int i = 0; i < byte; i++). Please help what do i need to add??
#include <VirtualWire.h>
int stageOne = 8;
int stageTwo = 9;
int motorPin[]={8,9};
void forward()
{
digitalWrite(stageOne,HIGH);
delay(100);
digitalWrite(stageTwo,LOW);
}
void backward()
{
digitalWrite(stageTwo,HIGH);
delay(100);
digitalWrite(stageOne,LOW);
}
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println("Device Ready");
vw_setup(2000);
vw_set_rx_pin(2);
vw_rx_start();
for(int i = 0; i< 12 ; i++)
{
pinMode(motorPin[i],OUTPUT);
}
}
void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
byte buf [VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];
byte buflen = VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN;
if (vw_get_message(buf,&buflen))
{
int i;
digitalWrite( 4,true); //led blinks
for (i=0; i< buflen; i++)
{
Serial.print(buf[i]);
if (buf[i]=='1')
{ forward();
Serial.println("=forward");
}
if(buf[i]=='0')
{backward();
Serial.println("=backward");}
}
{Serial.print("Received: ");
[b] for (int i = 0; i < byte; i++)[/b]
{Serial.write(message[i]);}
}
Serial.println();
}
}}
Use CTRL-T in the IDE, or Tools:Autoformat, to clean up the { }, and you'll find some mismatches to clean up.
Perhaps like this:
#include <VirtualWire.h>
int stageOne = 8;
int stageTwo = 9;
int motorPin[]={
8,9};
void forward()
{
digitalWrite(stageOne,HIGH);
delay(100);
digitalWrite(stageTwo,LOW);
}
void backward()
{
digitalWrite(stageTwo,HIGH);
delay(100);
digitalWrite(stageOne,LOW);
}
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println("Device Ready");
vw_setup(2000);
vw_set_rx_pin(2);
vw_rx_start();
for(int i = 0; i< 12 ; i++)
{
pinMode(motorPin[i],OUTPUT);
}
}
void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
byte buf [VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];
byte buflen = VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN;
if (vw_get_message(buf,&buflen))
{
int i;
digitalWrite( 4,true); //led blinks
for (i=0; i< buflen; i++)
{
Serial.print(buf[i]);
if (buf[i]=='1')
{
forward();
Serial.println("=forward");
}
if(buf[i]=='0')
{
backward();
Serial.println("=backward");
}
}
Serial.print("Received: ");
for (int i = 0; i < byte; i++){
Serial.write(message[i]);
}
Serial.println();
}
}
Next, you need to do something about the message[] array. The complaint is more about that. You can expand the bottom error section to see more of that.
sketch_may19a.ino: In function 'void loop()':
sketch_may19a:53: error: expected primary-expression before ';' token
sketch_may19a:55: error: 'message' was not declared in this scope
What are those leading/trailing "b"s? looks like an artifact picked up from a copy somewhere. if that's proper arduino C syntax, thats over my head - nvr seen that.
for (int i = 0; i < byte; i++)
I also see you declare int i twice - in setup and loop, but since not a global, dont think that matters, just a touch confusing.
EDIT - ah - now I see from my post - those are HTML bold tags 
[b..] and [\b..]
byte is a type. It can't be used a variable name. Your for loop makes no sense.
Thank You so much everybody!! I fixed my code a bit and tried to fix it, but its still saying there's an error with "pinMode(motorPin_,OUTPUT);" should i just take out the part?_
```
*#include <VirtualWire.h>
int motorOne = 8;
int motorTwo = 9;
int motorPin[] = {8, 9};
void forward()
{
digitalWrite(motorOne, HIGH);
delay(100);
digitalWrite(motorTwo, LOW);
}
void backward()
{
digitalWrite(motorTwo, HIGH);
delay(100);
digitalWrite(motorOne, LOW);
}
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println("Device Ready");
vw_setup(2000);
vw_set_rx_pin(2);
vw_rx_start();
for (int i = 0; i < 12 ; i++)
{
pinMode(motorPin[i], OUTPUT);
}
}
void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
byte buf [VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];
byte buflen = VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN;
if (vw_get_message(buf, &buflen))
{
digitalWrite( 4, true); //led blinks
int i;
for (i = 0; i < buflen; i++)
{
Serial.print(buf[i]);
if (buf[i] == '1')
{ forward();
Serial.println("=forward");
}
if (buf[i] == '0')
{ backward();
Serial.println("=backward");
}
}
{ Serial.print("Received: ");
for (int i = 0; i < buflen ; i++)
{
Serial.write(buf[i]);
}
}
Serial.println();
}
}
_```*_
you should check the size of your motorPin Array 
( and use the proper size for the for loop )
its still saying there's an error with "pinMode(motorPin,OUTPUT);"
What is "it" saying?
This BAD code compiles well , BTW:
int motorPin[] = {8,9};
void setup() {
for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
pinMode (motorPin[i],OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
}