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I'm getting an <http://error.me|error> message on this pdf code. It doesn't seem to like having a &lt; inside the assign tag. Any other way to achieve this?

&lt;#assign originalAmount = &lt;#if line.description?contains("Invoice")&gt;${line.charge} <#else> ${line.payment}&lt;/#if&gt;)&gt; ${originalAmount - line.payment}

```&lt;#if line.description?contains("Invoice")&gt;
  &lt;#assign originalAmount = line.charge&gt;
<#else>
  &lt;#assign originalAmount = line.payment&gt;
&lt;/#if&gt;

${originalAmount - line.payment}```


Unfortunately, it gets saved but throws an unexpected error when actually printing it

put `&lt;#assign originalAmount = 0/&gt;` before the if statement.

also close each assign statement with a slash `&lt;#assign originalAmount = line.charge */*&gt;`  `&lt;#assign originalAmount = line.payment */*&gt;`

Appreciate this is weeks ago but only just read it and it's bugged me.
Why are you suggesting <@U06K9UUAZMX> closing with a forward slash?
That's not standard freemarker syntax as far as I'm aware?
<https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/ref_directive_assign.html>

<@UA4ATEE59> Force of habit. I had a bug or glitch or whatever you wanna call it a couple of years ago that was resolved by using `&lt;#assign var = 1234 /&gt;` instead of `&lt;#assign var = 1234 &gt;`

Also pays to keep in mind, NetSuite may not be using the absolute latest version of Freemarker, so it's not 100% per documentation.