MEL Beginner needing some help

[NaughtyNathan]

sorry Tyler, but almost every single line of your code has some issue or other which makes it harder to point you in the right direction or give you specific help... Also, I'm unsure what your ultimate aim is, are you wanting to extrude new wires tubes where the existing (visible edge) isoparms are on a surface, or simply distribute some wire tubes over the surface uniformly between surf.v[A] and surf.v[B]..?

anyway, here are some notes on your code (wrap your code in a code block!) the things I've "fixed" are in orange, errors are in red and comments are all grey.
source "makeTUUB.mel"; // put your sources outside the proc
// you probably don't want to source this EVERY time you run the function right?
global proc makeWires(int $numCurves)
{ // the code in your proc must be inside curly braces
ls -sl; // has no real effect - get rid of it
string $selz[] = `ls -sl`; // you don't need to declare the variables separately first
print $selz;
if (`size $selz` == 0)
{
warning "Nothing Selected"; // you never refer to $selz, so why do you need it?
}
else
{
for ($i=0,$i<=$numCurves,++$i)
{
// original syntax: $var.attr is incorrect,
// you must 'catenate' variables and literal strings like this: ($var+".attr")
float $numberOfParms = `getAttr ($loftSurface + ".spansV")`; // where does $loftSurface come from?!?
float $randomRadius = rand(.1,1.5); //wire radius
float $randomOffset = rand(0.01,0.2); //for lofting the wires
string $tCurvez[] = `duplicateCurve -ch 0 -rn 0 -local 0 "loftedSurface1.v[$random]"`;
// hardcoded object name: "loftedSurface1"..?!? that can't be right...
// where does $random come from?!?
// variable $random not catenated correctly inside literal string!
makeTUUB $tCurvez $randomRadius;
delete $tCurvez;
}
}
}
:nathaN

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