I keep getting an error on MikTeX

[flyingpig]

Homework Statement

I don't know what's going on, but i can't compile anything

I keep getting the following error

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
entering extended mode
(C:\Users\l\Desktop\untitled-10.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, french, loaded.

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

This was my input

documentclass{report}

\begin{document}

hi

\end{document}

 

[CompuChip]

Hmm, unfortunately, the forum tries to render the \LaTeX code.
The "Missing \begin{document}" error - apart from the obvious cause - also occurs when you put some stuff in the pre-amble which is not expected there. For example.

\documentclass{article}
Hello
\begin{document}
world!
\end{document}

would also produce the error, because when LaTeX encounters the text "Hello" it expects that you should have written \begin{document} already.

Did you put a backslash before \documentclass, or is that just the quote being mangled? Otherwise, maybe you can post the document again using

 tags.

 

[flyingpig]

The stupid backslash!

Thank you very much! you just saved my life.