Calling The main method from another method

[SwissR]

Hi Guys im trying to call my main method from another method. But im having trouble so far i've tried

main();
public static void main(String[] args);
public static void main();

And i keep getting compiler issues expecting semi-colons im not sure what im doing wrong.
I am calling the method from the same class.

regards S

My main method looks like this

 /** main method to find the resource name calling */  
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {   
       Find f = new Find("myDir", "<\\$", "=", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Kieren McDonald\\Desktop\\Java\\Test\\filetest.txt");   
	}

[PhHein]

main(null);

[SwissR]

Thank you for that.
please could you explain to me why im not calling in the parameters of the method when i call it. and also if the value is null why does main(); not work???

However the compiler is still not liking the calling the compiler is throwing out several of the same 2 erros below.
Apologies is there are any formatiing errors. The forum doesn't seem to like code pasted from notepad++

at Find.main(Find.java:117)
at Find.<init>(Find.java:48)

  
  
  
 /** Imported Java Libraries */
import java.io.BufferedReader;   
import java.io.File;   
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;   
import java.io.FileReader;   
import java.io.IOException;   
import java.util.ArrayList;   
import java.util.regex.Matcher;   
import java.util.regex.Pattern;   
import java.util.Collections;   
import java.util.List;   
import java.io.PrintWriter;   
import java.io.FileWriter;   
  
/** class to find string */  
public class Find {   
  
    BufferedReader br = null;   
  
    /** method to find the value between the beginning and end of a string*/  
    public Find(String fileName, String begin, String end,String whereToWrite) throws java.io.IOException {   
        try {   
            /** read in file */  
            String resourceline = null;   
            ArrayList<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<String>();   
            File myDir = new File("C:/Documents and Settings/Kieren McDonald/Desktop/Nick/Java/Test/resources");   
            if (myDir.exists() && myDir.isDirectory()) {   
                File[] files = myDir.listFiles();   
                for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {   
                    br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(files[i]));   
                    while ((resourceline = br.readLine()) != null) {   
                        resourceline = find(begin, end, resourceline);   
                        if (resourceline != null) {
							resourceline = resourceline.trim();
						    boolean checkContains1=resourceline.contains("$");
							boolean checkContains2=resourceline.contains("=");
							boolean checkContains3=resourceline.contains(">");
							boolean checkContains4=resourceline.contains(":");
							if (checkContains1 || checkContains2 || checkContains3 || checkContains4)
							{
								main(null);  
							}
							if (arrayList.contains(resourceline)){
								main(null);  
							}
						}
						    else{      
                                 arrayList.add(resourceline);   
  
                                }   
  
					}  
                    System.out.println("/**This Is A List Of Includes Within The Component*/");					
                    sortAndPrint(arrayList);
                    System.out.println("/*******This Is The End Of The list Of Includes*******/");					
                    writeResults(arrayList, "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Kieren McDonald\\Desktop\\Nick\\Java\\Test\\filetest.txt");   
                }   
            } else {   
                System.out.println("This is not a directory");   
            }   
  
            /**  
             * declaring string identifiers for beginning and end of string  
             * aswel as one other line string to store the data between  
             */  
            /** while line is not equal to null then find 3 string values */  
        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {   
            ex.printStackTrace();   
        } finally {   
            br.close();   
        }   
    }   
  
    /** method to sort and print the array collection */  
    private void sortAndPrint(List<String> results) {   
        Collections.sort(results, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);   
        for (String resourceline : results) {   
            System.out.println(resourceline);   
        }   
    }   
  
    /** method to find the value between the beginning and end of a string  
     */  
    public String find(String beg, String end, String resourceline) {   
        /** match pattern to store string between strings and match to line */  
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(beg + "(.*)" + end);   
        Matcher m = p.matcher(resourceline);   
        return m.find() ? resourceline.substring(m.start(1), m.end(1)) : null;   
    }   
  
    /** method to print the results of the array into a new document */  
    private void writeResults(ArrayList<String> arrayList, String filename) {   
        try {   
            PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(filename);   
  
            for (String resourceline : arrayList) {   
                writer.println(resourceline);   
            }   
            System.err.println("/***Your Data Has Been Written To The File Successfully ");   
            writer.close();   
        } catch (Exception e) {   
            System.out.println("can't create output file \"" + filename + "\"");   
            e.printStackTrace();   
        }   
    }    
  
    /** main method to find the resource name calling */  
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {   
       Find f = new Find("myDir", "<\\$", "=", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Kieren McDonald\\Desktop\\Nick\\Java\\Test\\filetest.txt");   
	}   
	 
	 
	 
	}

[PhHein]

You don't need visibility and return type when calling a method, but need to call with the right parameters. The main method expects a String[] so main() will not work, as a method ... void main(){... does not exist. The call with main(null) works here as it is as good as main(new String[]{}), because there is only one main method that expects an object reference.
I strongly suggest that you read some of the basic tutorials: Lesson: Classes and Objects (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language)