When I try to compile someone else's code, I get a lot of errors, can someone shed some light on what they mean? I will post some, but not all, since they repeat.
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Look at the first one, it probably caused all the others.
It is a near certainty that you copied that code from a web site, and that the site contains printer marks to make the code look pretty. Do NOT do that. A printer's dash is not the same as a minus sign, for instance.
Try Tools->Fix encoding and reload. That should help with the character encoding.