Need help! something wrong in my code

Hi!
I got this program. I need to count how many black pixels are there in the row 12.It should give me the answer 4.
I believe everything is ok i just can get the final results cos im getting this error:

File: E:\java2\Amediumtry.java [line: 15]
Error: E:\java2\Amediumtry.java:15: cannot return a value from method whose result type is void

THATS THE PROGRAM:

import java.io.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public class Amediumtry{
public static void main(String[] argv)
throws Exception{
int acc =0;
BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(new File("E:\\java2\\image2.png"));

for (int i=0; i<32; i++){
if (bi.getRGB(i,12)==0xFF000000){
acc ++;
break;}

return(acc);
}
}
}

Can someone explain me whats going wrong and where should i look for a solution?
Please

Make a new method.

Code:

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private static int blackinrow(){
throws Exception{
int acc =0;
BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(new File("E:\\java2\\image2.png"));

for (int i=0; i<32; i++){
if (bi.getRGB(i,12)==0xFF000000){
acc ++;
break;}

return(acc);
}
}
}

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and invoke it from your main.
the explanation:
a void is a method but a method can only return what it is.
if you replace void with int you can return an integer from your code
if you replace void with string you can return a string.

Hi Novak,

Your original code is good. You needed to remove the break statement because this stopped the loop. And you also needed to print the result when you had finished counting the number of black pixels.

Code:

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import java.io.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public class Amediumtry {
        public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception{
                int acc = 0;
                BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(new File("E:\\java2\\image2.png"));

                for (int i=0; i<32; i++){
                        if (bi.getRGB(i,12)==0xFF000000){
                                acc++;
                                //[B]break;[/B]
                        }
                }
                // Print result
                [B]System.out.println("The number of black pixels is: " + acc);[/B]
        }
}

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If you wanted to make it a method as dinosoep suggested...

Code:

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import java.io.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public class Amediumtry {
        public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {

                int blacks = blackinrow();
                System.out.println("The number of black pixels in row 12 is: " + blacks);
        }

        static int blackinrow() throws Exception {
                int acc = 0;
                BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(new File("E:\\java2\\image2.png"));

                for (int i=0; i<32; i++){
                        if (bi.getRGB(i,12)==0xFF000000){
                                acc ++;
                        }
                }

                return(acc);
        }
}

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A better solution might be:

Code:

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import java.io.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public class Amediumtry {
        public static void main(String[] argv) {

                // Specify the file name
                String filename = "E:\\java2\\image2.png";

                // Specify the row
                int row = 12;

                // Initialize black count
                int blackCount = 0;


                // Use a "try-catch-block" to handle a possible IOException made in blackinrow()
                try {
                        // Pass the filename and row to blackinrow, and store result in blackCount
                        blackCount = blackinrow(filename, row);

                } catch (IOException e) {
                        // An IOException was thrown because blackinrow() could not read the filename
                        System.out.println("The method blackinrow() threw an exception because it could not read the file.");
                        System.out.println("The program will now stop running...");

                        // Stop the program
                        System.exit(1);
                }


                // Print the results
                System.out.println("The number of black pixels in row " + row + " is: " + blackCount);
        }

        static int blackinrow(String filename, int row) throws IOException {
                int acc = 0;
                BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(new File(filename));

                for (int i=0; i<32; i++){
                        if (bi.getRGB(i,row)==0xFF000000){
                                acc ++;
                        }
                }

                return(acc);
        }
}

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