compiler error Array of a custom class

[lenois]

So I am trying to declare an array of a custom class, and am getting a compiler error.
Flesch.java:5: error: class, interface, or enum expected
private static Sentence[]thisFileSentences;
^
Flesch.java:6: error: class, interface, or enum expected
private static Word[]thisFileWords;
^
Here is the driver code

import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;


public class Flesch
{
	public static Sentence[]thisFileSentences=new Sentence[10000];
	public static Word[]thisFileWords=  new Word[10000];
	
	public static void main (String[]args)throws IOException
	{
		
		String fileName=getFileName();
		String readFile= readTheFile(fileName);
		int numSentences=countSentences(readFile);
		System.out.println(numSentences);
		int numWords=countWords(numSentences);
		System.out.println(numWords);
		int numSyllables=countSyllables(numWords);
		System.out.println(numSyllables);
		
		
	}
	public static String getFileName()
	{
		String fileName=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What is the name of your file?");
		return fileName;
	}
	public static String readTheFile(String fileName)throws IOException
	{
		
		String holder;
		BufferedReader inFile = 
                     new BufferedReader( new FileReader(fileName+".txt"));
		StringBuffer readFile=new StringBuffer();
		
		do
		{
			holder=inFile.readLine();
			if(holder!=null)
			{
				readFile.append(holder+" ");
			}
		}while(holder!=null);
		
		String sReadFile=readFile.toString();
				
		return sReadFile;
			 
	}
	public static int countSentences(String readFile)
	{
		
		StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(readFile,"!.;:");
		int i=0;
		while (st.hasMoreTokens())
		{	
			thisFileSentences[i]=new Sentence(st.nextToken());
			int x=thisFileSentences[i].countWords();
			i++;
			System.out.println(x);
			
		}
		return i-1;
	}
	public static int countWords(int numSentences)
	{
		int ct=0;
		int whileCt;
		int numWords=0;
		for (int i=0; i<=numSentences;i++)
		{
			whileCt=0;
			ct=ct+thisFileSentences[i].countWords();
			System.out.println(ct);
			while(whileCt<ct)
			{
				thisFileWords[numWords]=thisFileSentences[i].nextWord();
				numWords++;
				whileCt++;	
			}
				
		}
		return numWords;
	}
	public static int countSyllables(int numWords)
	{
		int numSyllables=0;	
		for(int i=0;i<numWords;i++)
		{
			numSyllables=numSyllables+thisFileWords[i].countSyllables();
		}
	return numSyllables;
	}
	//public int computeScore()
	//{
	//}
}

here is the code for the classes

import java.util.StringTokenizer;
public class Sentence
{
	private static StringTokenizer sentence=new StringTokenizer("");
	public Sentence(String s)
	{
		
		sentence=new StringTokenizer(s," ,");
		
	}
	public int countWords()
	{
		int numWords=sentence.countTokens();
		return numWords;
	}
	public Word nextWord()
	{
		Word nextWord= new Word(sentence.nextToken());
		return nextWord;
	}


}

public class Word
{
	private static final char[]vowels={'a','e','i','o','u','y'};
	private static int numberOfSyllables;
	private static char[]word;
	Word(String w)
	{
		w=w.toLowerCase();
		word=w.toCharArray();
				
	}
	public int countSyllables()
	{
		int ct=word.length;
		for(int i=0;i<ct;i++)
		{
			if(isVowel(word[i]))
			{
				if(i==ct-1&&word[i]=='e')
				{
					
				}
				else if(word[i]=='e'&&(word[i+1]=='d'||word[i+1]=='s'))
				{
				}
				else if(i==0)
				{
					numberOfSyllables++;
				}else if(!isVowel(word[i-1]))
				{
					numberOfSyllables++;
				}
			 	
			}
		}
		if(numberOfSyllables>1)
		{
			return numberOfSyllables;
		}else
		{
			return 1;
		}
	}
	public static boolean isVowel(char ch)
	{
		boolean vowel=false;
		for(int i=0;i<6;i++)
		{
			if(ch==vowels[i])
			{
				vowel=true;
			}
		}
	return vowel;
	}
	public String getWord()
	{
		String sWord= new String(word);
		return sWord;
	}
}

I have tested both classes, and they seem fine, but i can't figure out what i did wrong with the driver.

I mainly want to know if I have to take a different strategy with the driver, which I can easily do.

[Fubarable]

Look at the offending lines -- they're in the wrong place. They're outside of any class, and this cannot occur in Java.

[jim829]

Your declarations need to be inside the class declaration.

Regards,
Jim

[JosAH]

import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

		private static Sentence[]thisFileSentences;
		private static Word[]thisFileWords;
public class Flesch
{ ... }

What are those two static variable definitions doing there outside of any class?

kind regards,

Jos

ps. and who's the slowest old sod again?

[jim829]

Hah!

[Fubarable]

Hah!

Hah right back atcha!

[JosAH]

Duh ...

[lenois]

Alright so the compiler error finished now I am having some problem at run time, no errors, just not the results I want.
on line 75

ct=ct+thisFileSentences[i].countWords();

this is always returning 0

although on line 60

int x=thisFileSentences[i].countWords();

It returns the actual word count

[JosAH]

It is time to bring in the poor mens debugger: System.out.println( ...). Sprinkle it in your code here and there and make it print values you're interested in. You'll see some correct results and some stuff you didn't expect. Add some more of those System.out.println( ... ) statements and you have your mistake pinned down before you know it.

kind regards,

Jos

[lenois]

thisFileSentences[i]=new Sentence(st.nextToken());
int x=thisFileSentences[i].countWords();
i++;
System.out.println(x);

 whileCt=0;   
ct=ct+thisFileSentences[i].countWords();  
System.out.println(ct);

I know the poor man debugger, that was why I asked. My results were not what I expected.

I am just wondering why the same code doesn't produce the same results when I declared a class variable.

[lenois]

So no matter where I put the second iteration of the count words method it only works correctly where I first assigned sentences to it.

Why is it that the class variable array is changing between methods?