Assets/Standard Assets/Scripts/General Scripts/follow.js(9,59): BCE0044:unexpected char: 0xAD

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1

can someone help me I keep getting Assets/Standard Assets/Scripts/General Scripts/follow.js(9,59): BCE0044:unexpected char: 0xAD error message and I’ve tried every thing to fix it I can think of. This is what i have:

var target : Transform;
var moveSpeed = 3;
var rotationSpeed = 3;
var myTransform : Transform;

function Awake(){ myTransform = transform;
}

function Start(){ target = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player"­;).transform;
}

function Update () myTransform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(myTransform.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation(target.position - myTransform.position), rotationSpeed*Time.deltaTime); myTransform.position += myTransform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
}

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If you google for 0xAD you’ll come across other posts on Answers with the same problem. The 4th google hit tells you that character 0xAD is a soft-hyphen. That indicates that the minus sign in your code is not a minus character, but a soft hyphen instead. The compiler isn’t expecting to find a soft hyphen. If you select it, and replace it with a - character - that’s a hyphen-minus, ascii char 45.