Expected unqualified-id before 'if"

[aviannerd]

I'm a big time noob, and this is pretty much my first project. The goal of this code is to sense blinks and move a servo 180 degrees each blink. The code I am using is from this project but heavily modified. I am trying to run the code in the tinkercad circuits arduino simulator, but I get two of the same error message each time. "error: expected unqualified-id before 'if' " The sim is currently just an arduino, with no sensors or anything connected. I am just trying to get the code to run before I move onto that.

This is the code:

#include <Servo.h>

int irSensorL = 4;
int potpin5 = 4;

void loop() {

	int readingSensor = digitalRead(irSensorL);
	Serial.println(readingSensor);
	delay(1000);

	Servo eyeL;

}
boolean closeEyes = false;

void setup() {
	Servo eyeL;
	Serial.begin(9600);
	eyeL.attach(3);
	eyeL.write(30);  

}

int readingSensor = digitalRead(irSensorL);
Servo eyeL;

if (readingSensor == 0 ) {
	closeEyes =! closeEyes;
	delay(1000);
	Serial.println(closeEyes);
}
if(closeEyes == true) {
	eyeL.write(180);
	if(closeEyes == true);
		delay(100);
	else {
		eyeL.write(0);
		delay(100);
	}
}

I am getting the error on lines 30 and 35, on "delay(1000);" and "if(closeEyes == true);" I've read that this error can happen due to a missing ";" somewhere in the code, but I don't know where that would be.

I don't know if this matters, but once it's functional I'm going to copy-paste this code and modify it to be "closeEyeR" and "closeEyeL", so if that's going to screw something up feel free to let me know.

Thank you for your help.

[guix]

Welcome

You can't have code (except variables declarations) outside of a function.

All your "if" code should be inside the loop() function. But there are some other problems with your code so here I fixed some of it

#include <Servo.h>

int irSensorL = 4;
int potpin5 = 4;

Servo eyeL;
boolean closeEyes = false;

void setup() {
	Serial.begin(9600);
	eyeL.attach(3);
	eyeL.write(30); 
}

void loop() {
	int readingSensor = digitalRead(irSensorL);
	Serial.println(readingSensor);
	delay(1000);
	
	if (readingSensor == 0 ) {
		closeEyes = !closeEyes;
		delay(1000);
		Serial.println(closeEyes);
	}
	if(closeEyes == true) {
		eyeL.write(180);
		if(closeEyes == true) {
			delay(100);
		} else {
			eyeL.write(0);
			delay(100);
		}
	}
}

Compare every lines to your original code to see what changed so you can learn something...

[guix]

You also have logic problems

	if(closeEyes == true) {
		eyeL.write(180);
		if(closeEyes == true) {
			delay(100);
		} else {
			eyeL.write(0);
			delay(100);
		}
	}

The "else" will never execute because closeEyes didn't change