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[brendanmcdonagh]

Hi all, i am getting a coupke of compile errors with this code, any ideas - stuck on it for a good few hours now.

im getting a identifier in line 23 expected
}

and

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try
^

Any help is appreciated.




[code=java]
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;

public class FileWriter2
{
String pathName = "C:\\BlueJ\\bre n.txt";
File aFile = new File(pathName);


try
{

FileWriter aFileWriter = new FileWriter(aFil e);

aFileWriter.wri te("Test");
aFileWriter.clo se();
}
catch (Exception anException)
{
System.out.prin tln("error :" + anException)
}
}
[/code]

[BigDaddyLH]

Don't forget that code has to go into methods -- you forgot to define any methods, for example, a main method.

[brendanmcdonagh]

put it in a main maethod and now i m getting five errors - including it doesn't find symbol: method close and write.

import java.io.*;



public class FileWriter2
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String  pathName = "C:\\BlueJ\\bren.txt";
File aFile = new File(pathName);


try
{

FileWriter aFileWriter = new FileWriter(aFile);

aFileWriter.write("Test");
aFileWriter.close();
}
catch (Exception anException)
{
System.out.println("error :" + anException);
}
}
}

[JosAH]

You're not showing us the code you fed to your compiler.

kind regards,

Jos

[brendanmcdonagh]

javac FileWriter2.jav a

[JosAH]

javac FileWriter2.jav a

That's not what I mean; your code in reply #3 compiles fine for me so I was a bit
surprised that compilation failed in your case.

kind regards,

Jos

[brendanmcdonagh]

Glad to hear what im doing is right, but why won't it compile??

I have dona a print screen on cmd errors after javac FileWriter222.j ava if anyone has the time to have a look but don't know how to attach file

[JosAH]

Glad to hear what im doing is right, but why won't it compile??

I have dona a print screen on cmd errors after javac FileWriter222.j ava if anyone has the time to have a look but don't know how to attach file

Run it again, redirect the compiler's output streams to a file and copy/paste the
content to a new message; I'm sort of curious why that code won't compile ...

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

<adjusting mindreader's turban/>
Did you earlier define a FileWriter.java ? If so, the compiler is confusing it with java.io.FileWri ter. Delete both your FileWriter.java and FileWriter.clas s.

[brendanmcdonagh]

<adjusting mindreader's turban/>
Did you earlier define a FileWriter.java ? If so, the compiler is confusing it with java.io.FileWri ter. Delete both your FileWriter.java and FileWriter.clas s.

Yes!!

No i get a noclassdeffound error exception in thread main - but ill prob be able to work that out unless someone can see it quickly - reply 3

[BigDaddyLH]

Yes!!

No i get a noclassdeffound error exception in thread main - but ill prob be able to work that out unless someone can see it quickly - reply 3

it's hard to see errors when the code we have has none ;-(

[JosAH]

it's hard to see errors when the code we have has none ;-(

Yep, also see reply #6; the OP's question is quite obscure and sloppy; there are
external conditions here that are neither realized nor mentioned by the OP. We
have to dust off our crystal balls ...

kind regards,

Jos

[brendanmcdonagh]

Sorry guys,

Because (as someone suggested) I had similar named files in directory when i type javac i got earlier mentioned errors, i deleted these files and this enable compilation. the runtime error was my mistake but thank you so much for taking the time to help me:)