Soooo.. I hope I'm in the right place. is ZMUD what we call our programming language? I'm a total novice on programming. I made a script that fails to identify the match variable, and I fixed it. So my question is... why did splitting to a new section this fix my script?

OLD not working script
start:
pause 2
put listen to %t
pause 2
put clean my cornet
pause 4
put play %p
match expcheck You finish playing (right here if failed to MATCH this hwne I'd finish playing. I'd just sit there forever)
match juggle idle
matchwait


NEW working script
start:
pause 2
put listen to %t
pause 2
put clean my cornet
pause 4
goto play

play:
put play %p
match expcheck You finish playing
match juggle idle
matchwait

A helpful suggestion since you are new to writing scripts. Always put the action you are doing after the match table. It can cause hang-ups sometimes with the action executing before table is fully loaded, and it won't catch the match. So instead of this...

play:
put play %p
match expcheck You finish playing
match juggle idle
matchwait

Do this...

play:
match expcheck You finish playing
match juggle idle
put play %p
matchwait