Do you know why I'm getting "cannot find symbol" error?

[basla]

Anybody have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here?

I made a program that prints out a square of asterisks. Now I need to modify it so the square is printed using whatever character a user types in when prompted. My assignment specifies that I need to use the statement "char fill = input.next().charAt(0)" to read the character from the user. I must have used that statement incorrectly though, because jgrasp keeps highlighting it and saying "cannot find symbol."

Can anyone help?

import java.util.Scanner;
public class parameterAssignment
{
	
	//Main method begins execution of Java program
	public static void main( String[] args )
	{
		//We will be using information typed in by keyboard
		Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in);
	
		//Ask user for input
		System.out.print(" We're going to make a square.\n How many units wide would you like it to be? ");
		int side = keyboard.nextInt();
		System.out.print(" We'll make the square out of a character of your choosing. \nPlease enter any one character on the keyboard. ");
		char fill = input.next().charAt( 0 );
		squareOfAsterisks(side, fill);
	}//end main
	
	
	public static void squareOfAsterisks(int side, char fill)
	{
		for (int i=1;i<=side;i++)/*declare and initialze control 
		variable; set loop continuation condition; increment control 
		variable by 1*/ 

		{ 
		for (int j=1;j<=side;j++)/*declare and initialze control 
		variable; set loop continuation condition; increment control 
		variable by 1*/ 

		{
		System.out.print(fill);
		}
		System.out.println();
		}
	}
			
	
}//end class squareOfAsterisks

[ozzyman]

you don't use 'input' literally... you've named your scanner-input 'keyboard', so you need to use 'keyboard.next...'

[pbrockway2]

"Cannot find symbol" messages occur when you mispell something, or when you give a method the wrong arguments.

In your case you simply don't have a variable input declared anywhere. You called it something else.

[andy9507]

You just have to use the keyboard Scanner object you constructed earlier, instead of input which hasn't been defined and therefore is like gibberish to the compiler.

[Fubarable]

You just have to use the keyboard Scanner object you constructed earlier, instead of input which hasn't been defined and therefore is like gibberish to the compiler.

... as already mentioned by ozzyman and pbrockway above.

[basla]

Thanks so much for the helpful explanations. I get why it wasn't working now. Much appreciated!