illegal start of expression

[MAJ]

Explain to me how that's possible

import java.util.*;
public class Stars
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
line (13);
line (7);
line (35);
System.out.println();
box(10,3);
box(5, 4);
box(20,7);
}
public static void line(int count)
{
for (int i = 1; i <= count; i++)
{
System.out.println();
}
public static void box(int width,int height)
{
line(width);
for (int line = 1; line<= height - 2; line++)
{
System.out.print("*");
for (int space = 1; space <= width - 2; space++)
{
System.out.print(" ");
}
System.out.println("*");
}

[Tolls]

This is the third time now I have had to ask you to post your code in [ code] tags [ /code].

Are you simply not listening?

[JosAH]

@MAJ: please properly indent your code and use [code] ... [/code] tags around your code when you post it; this is inreadably as it is now.

kind regards,

Jos

edit: the slow old sod tries to post something again ...

[gimbal2]

edit: the slow old sod tries to post something again ...

This is like that story: the tortoise and the turtle.

[MAJ]

This is the third time now I have had to ask you to post your code in [ code] tags [ /code].

Are you simply not listening?

Actually its the second time. I'm sorry but I don't understand how you want me to post my code. I'm new here.

[MAJ]

[QUOTE=JosAH;392049]@MAJ: please properly indent your code and use [code] ... [/code] tags around your code when you post it; this is inreadably as it is now.

kind regards,

Jos

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as "inreadably". I will try to get into the habit of indenting my code.

[Tolls]

And [code] tags.
Indenting code without using code tags when you post it here is no use at all.

[AlexGraal]

As Tolls just posted on your other thread...what is the error you are getting? What is it? I'm not going to go stick it into an IDE to see where it is. You have seen the error, now post it to here if you want any help.

[MAJ]

As Tolls just posted on your other thread...what is the error you are getting? What is it? I'm not going to go stick it into an IDE to see where it is. You have seen the error, now post it to here if you want any help.

Stars.java:20: error: illegal start of expression
public static void box(int width,int height)
^
Stars.java:20: error: illegal start of expression
public static void box(int width,int height)
^
Stars.java:20: error: ';' expected
public static void box(int width,int height)
^
Stars.java:20: error: '.class' expected
public static void box(int width,int height)
^
Stars.java:20: error: ';' expected
public static void box(int width,int height)
^
Stars.java:20: error: ';' expected
public static void box(int width,int height)
^
Stars.java:31: error: reached end of file while parsing
}
^
7 errors
That was a pain in the neck. It took me less than 1 minute to find out the errors and put them on here.

[MAJ]

And [code] tags.
Indenting code without using code tags when you post it here is no use at all.

I can't get into the habit of doing something that I wasn't taught.

[Junky]

Post #2 told you exactly what you need to do to add code tags.

Your problem should be obvious if your code was properly indented. Where is your box method?

[MAJ]

You mean like this?

  
   import java.util.*;
   public class Stars
       {
   public static void main(String[] args)
        {
          line (13);
          line (7);
          line (35);
         System.out.println();
         box(10,3);
         box(5, 4);
         box(20,7);
           }
       public static void line(int count)
           {
           for (int i = 1; i <= count; i++)
           {
            System.out.println();
            }
       public static void box(int width,int height)
           {
             line(width);
            for (int line = 1; line<= height - 2; line++)
           {
             System.out.print("*");
             for (int space = 1; space <= width - 2; space++)
           {
              System.out.print(" ");
           }
             System.out.println("*");
           }

I don't think my problem would be obvious if I indented. Isn't this my box method?:
box(10,3);
box(5, 4);
box(20,7);

[Junky]

I don't think my problem would be obvious if I indented. Isn't this my box method?:

Yes it would.
On which line does the line method start?
On which line does the line method end?
On which line does the box method start?

[MAJ]

The line method starts at 6 and ends at 8. The box method starts at 10 and ends at 13.

[Junky]

Wrong.

You are referring to the method calls. I am asking about the actual method implementations. I'll give you a head start: the line method begins on line 14.

[MAJ]

Ok, I'm guessing it ends at 22.

[Tolls]

I don't think my problem would be obvious if I indented.

Then you would be wrong.
This is what your code looks like when each level is correctly indented with the brackets matching up as best as possible.

You have methods buried in methods.
Or, simply, you have missing brackets...which would have been clear had you formatted your code correctly.
It's one of the reasons for formatting code correctly, to catch mistakes like this.
The other is so that it is easier to read.

  
import java.util.*;
public class Stars
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        line (13);
        line (7);
        line (35);
        System.out.println();
        box(10,3);
        box(5, 4);
        box(20,7);
    }
    public static void line(int count)
    {
        for (int i = 1; i <= count; i++)
        {
            System.out.println();
        }
       public static void box(int width,int height)
       {
           line(width);
           for (int line = 1; line<= height - 2; line++)
           {
               System.out.print("*");
               for (int space = 1; space <= width - 2; space++)
               {
                   System.out.print(" ");
               }
               System.out.println("*");
           }

[gimbal2]

Gee Tolls, what is that huge gaping incredibly easy to see empty space at the bottom there? Where did that come from all so suddenly?

Hmmmmmmm. Mysterious.

[AlexGraal]

Well that was a pain in the neck. It took me less than 1 minute to find the error. In your code. Once it was actually formatted correctly. By somebody else.

And I won't post it since you should be able to see it now :)

A hint since you've been slow to pick up "things that haven't been taught" to you: methodception.

[Junky]

Ok, I'm guessing it ends at 22.

That is yet another method call. Are you trolling or do you simply have no idea what you are doing?