ArrayList driving me crazy !!!!!

[manolo zapata]

Ok guys begginer here, I have a problem that drives me crazy

I try to create an arraylist but I keep getting identifier expected and '(' or '[' expected errors, I thought its something I do, but I copied and tried an example snippet from the net and exactly the same, I use 1.6 sdk

here's the example snippet

  import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.*;
 
public class Ex01 {
 
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
 
BufferedReader userInput = new BufferedReader 
(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
 
ArrayList <String> myArr = new ArrayList <String> ();
myArr.add("Italian Riviera");
myArr.add("Jersey Shore");
myArr.add("Puerto Rico");
myArr.add("Los Cabos Corridor");
myArr.add("Lubmin");
myArr.add("Coney Island");
myArr.add("Karlovy Vary");
myArr.add("Bourbon-l'Archambault");
myArr.add("Walt Disney World Resort");
myArr.add("Barbados");
 
System.out.println("Stupid Vacation Resort Adviser");
System.out.println("Enter your name:");
String name = userInput.readLine();
Integer nameLength = name.length();
if (nameLength == 0)
{
System.out.println("empty name entered");
return;
}
 
Integer vacationIndex = nameLength % myArr.size();
 
System.out.println("\nYour name is "+name+", its length is " + 
nameLength + " characters,\n" +
"that's why we suggest you to go to "
+ myArr.get(vacationIndex));
}
}  

and the error I get is :

**.java:14: '(' or '[' expected ArrayList <String> myArr = new ArrayList <String> ();
             ^
 

can anyone help it is killing me !!!

thanks

[ April 28, 2008: Message edited by: manolo zapata ]
[ April 28, 2008: Message edited by: manolo zapata ]

[Stevi Deter]

Manolo,
Are you sure Java 6 is the first JDK on your path?

Assuming you're on windows, open a command line, and type "PATH" and see what's there.

It looks like the version of javac being found is Java 1.4 or earlier (pre-Generics). The example code you gave runs fine on my system with Java 6.

[manolo zapata]

I had a look and it seems you are right

it goes through 1.4.2 first

I will try and fix this ,

thanks very much for the help (dont go away sorta speak, I bet I'll need more help with this )


thanks a lot man